{"id":13874,"date":"2023-08-09T03:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:31:46","slug":"exercise-zayed-talwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-zayed-talwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Zayed Talwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Exercise Zayed Talwar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two ships of <strong>the Indian Navy, INS Visakhapatnam<\/strong>, and <strong>INS Trikand<\/strong> are participating in the exercise.<\/li>\n<li>During the visit, the ships will undertake <strong>professional interactions with UAE Naval<\/strong> Force on multiple elements of maritime operations.<\/li>\n<li>They will further share best practices to enhance cooperation and strengthen ties between the two navies.<\/li>\n<li>This exercise will boost the <strong>maritime partnership between the two navies<\/strong> and foster a common understanding of the security challenges in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about INS Visakhapatnam<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the lead ship and <strong>the first of the Indian Navy&#8217;s Visakhapatnam-class<\/strong> stealth guided-missile destroyers.<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned on November 21, 2021, is one of the largest destroyers in Indian Navy service.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Displacement: 7,400 tonnes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Propulsion:<\/strong> It is propelled by four powerful Gas Turbines, in a Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) configuration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed:<\/strong> It is capable of achieving speeds in excess of 30 knots.<\/li>\n<li>The ship has enhanced stealth features resulting in a reduced Radar Cross Section (RCS) achieved through efficient shaping of hull, full beam superstructure design, plated masts and use of radar transparent materials on exposed decks.<\/li>\n<li>The ship is equipped to <strong>fight under Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is INS Trikand?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a Talwar-class frigate of the Indian Navy. The Talwar-class frigates are a series of guided missile frigates that were built in Russia and are considered to be highly capable multi-role warships. It is the sixth and final ship of the Talwar-class frigates built for the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/indian-navy-to-conduct-bilateral-exercise-zayed-talwar-with-uae-101691598535725.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Navy to conduct bilateral exercise \u2018Zayed Talwar\u2019 with UAE<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Zayed Talwar is held between the Indian Navy and United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13874","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\/13874","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=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}