{"id":10423,"date":"2023-05-07T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T01:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:41:13","slug":"what-is-ins-magar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-ins-magar\/","title":{"rendered":"What is INS Magar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About INS Magar:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>oldest Landing Ship Tank (Large) of the Indian Navy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>lead ship of Magar-class amphibious warfare vessels<\/strong> of the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<li>The ship was <strong>indigenously built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders<\/strong> &amp; Engineers Ltd, <strong>Kolkata<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It had the unique distinction of being the <strong>first indigenous ship of the Indian Navy<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She was launched on 16 November 1984 and <strong>commissioned into the Indian Navy on 18 July 1987<\/strong> by late Admiral R H Tahiliani.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has been <strong>named after a species of crocodile<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>crest design depicts a Brown coloured crocodile <\/strong>with its mouth open swimming over White and Blue ocean waves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The aft portion of the crest shows<\/strong> a cut out of the thick and impenetrable <strong>armour like skin of the crocodile<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>design<\/strong> has been <strong>taken from a Mathura sculpture of 1st Century AD<\/strong>, preserved in original in the Lucknow museum.<\/li>\n<li>The ship has <strong>a displacement of 5,600 tonnes<\/strong>, <strong>a length of 125 metres<\/strong>, <strong>a beam of 17 metres<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>During its service, Magar has <strong>participated in numerous operations<\/strong>, amphibious exercises, and humanitarian missions, noteworthy of them being <strong>Operation Samudra Setu<\/strong> wherein over 4,000 Indian nationals were repatriated from various corners of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The ship was also <strong>instrumental in the evacuation of over 1,300 survivors post the tsunami in 2004<\/strong> and had been part of several <strong>joint military exercises<\/strong> with the Indian Army.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Landing Ship Tank?<\/h3>\n<p>The Landing Ship Tank is an ocean going ship capable of shore to shore delivery of tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, and troops. The LST program was developed in response to a need for armored infantry divisions in invasions by sea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/ins-magar-rests-her-oars-after-36-years-of-service\/articleshow\/100040297.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>INS Magar rests her oars after 36 years of service<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Magar is the lead ship of Magar-class amphibious warfare vessels of the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10423","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\/10423","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=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}