{"id":13594,"date":"2023-07-31T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:09:10","slug":"ins-visakhapatnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-visakhapatnam\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Visakhapatnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INS Visakhapatnam:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the l<strong>ead ship and the first of the Indian Navy&#8217;s Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>commissioned on November 21, 2021,<\/strong> is one of the largest destroyers in Indian Navy service.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Size<\/strong>: It measures <strong>163m in length, 17m in breadth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Displacement: 7,400 tonnes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Propulsion<\/strong>: It is propelled by <strong>four powerful Gas Turbines<\/strong>, in a Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) configuration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed<\/strong>: It is capable of achieving speeds in <strong>excess of 30 knots.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The ship has e<strong>nhanced stealth features<\/strong> resulting in a r<strong>educed Radar Cross Section (RCS) <\/strong>achieved through efficient shaping of <strong>hull, full beam superstructure design<\/strong>, <strong>plated masts and use of radar transparent materials<\/strong> on exposed decks.<\/li>\n<li>The ship is e<strong>quipped to fight under Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Named after the historic city of Andhra Pradesh on the east coast, Visakhapatnam, the \u2018City of Destiny\u2019, the ship has a<strong> total complement of about 315 personnel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are guided-missile destroyers?<\/h3>\n<p>A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a large warship that is armed with a variety of missiles, guns, and other weapons. DDGs are designed to provide air defense, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-surface warfare for carrier strike groups, surface action groups, and expeditionary strike groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/ins-visakhapatnam-reaches-muscat-to-boost-india-oman-maritime-partnership-101690732729273.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>INS Visakhapatnam reaches Muscat to boost India-Oman maritime partnership<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Visakhapatnam is the lead ship and the first of the Indian Navy&#8217;s Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13594","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\/13594","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=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}