{"id":10215,"date":"2023-04-28T05:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2025-03-29T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:23:36","slug":"ins-tarkash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-tarkash\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Tarkash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INS Tarkash:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a state-of-the-art <strong>stealth frigate of the Indian Navy<\/strong> equipped with a <strong>versatile range of weapons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tarkash belongs to the <strong>Talwar class of guided missile frigates<\/strong>. These are modified Krivak III class frigates <strong>built by Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was built by the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad, Russia.<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned into Indian Navy service on 9 November 2012 at Kaliningrad and <strong>joined the Western Naval Command on 27 December 2012.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>length of 124.8 m<\/strong>, a beam of 15.2 m, and a draught of 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top Speed: 32 knots <\/strong>(59 km\/h; 37 mph).<\/li>\n<li>It has been <strong>equipped with a weapon sensor<\/strong> that enables it to address threats in all dimensions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>uses stealth technologies and a special hull design<\/strong> to ensure a reduced radar cross-section.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>board one Ka-28 Helix-A antisubmarine helicopter<\/strong> or one Ka-31 Helix-B airborne early warning helicopter,<\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>equipped with BrahMos missiles<\/strong> instead of the Klub-N missiles, which makes it different from the earlier flight of Talwar-class ships.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Facts about \u201cOperation Kaveri\u201d:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>rescue operation<\/strong> being carried out <strong>by the Indian Government to bring back Indian citizens stranded in Sudan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to the official data, the number of Indians in Sudan is around 4,000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why the need for evacuation?<\/strong> Sudan has been witnessing <strong>deadly fighting between the country&#8217;s army and a paramilitary group<\/strong>, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), that has reportedly <strong>left several hundred\u2019s dead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cause of fighting?<\/strong> It was <strong>triggered by disagreement over an internationally backed plan to form a new civilian government<\/strong> four years after the fall of autocrat Omar al-Bashir and two years after the military coup. Both sides accuse the other of thwarting the transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are frigates and destroyers?<\/h3>\n<p>Frigates and destroyers are two of the most common warships in a navy\u2019s fleet. Both are designed for quick maneuverability and can be used to escort and protect larger vessels from air, surface and underwater threats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/top-news-of-the-day-april-27-2023-india-sends-third-ship-to-port-sudan-to-evacuate-indians-pt-usha-accuses-protesting-wrestlers-of-tarnishing-indias-image-and-more\/article66785405.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Top news of the day: India sends third ship to Port Sudan to evacuate Indians; P.T. Usha accuses protesting wrestlers of tarnishing India\u2019s image, and more<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Tarkash is a stealth frigate of the Indian Navy equipped with a versatile range of weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}