{"id":12278,"date":"2023-06-20T07:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:55:59","slug":"ins-kirpan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-kirpan\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Kirpan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INS Kirpan:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>indigenously-built in-service<\/strong> missile.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>Khukri class missile<\/strong> corvette commissioned into the Navy on January 12, 1991.<\/li>\n<li>It has a displacement displacing capacity of close to 1,400 tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of a speed of more than 25 knots.<\/li>\n<li>The Khukri class are <strong>equipped with Diesel Engines<\/strong> assembled in India.<\/li>\n<li>The ship is fitted with a medium-range gun, 30 mm close-range guns, chaff launchers, and surface-to-surface missiles.<\/li>\n<li>It performs a wide variety of roles, including <strong>coastal and offshore patrol<\/strong>, coastal security, surface warfare, anti-piracy, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a missile corvette?<\/h3>\n<p>A missile corvette which is also known as a missile patrol craft, is a small warship designed for coastal or littoral operations. It is typically equipped with anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, and other offensive and defensive weapons systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-gifts-missile-corvette-ins-kirpan-to-vietnam\/article66986653.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India gifts missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Kirpan is a Khukri class missile corvette commissioned into the Navy on January 12, 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12278","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\/12278","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=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}