{"id":18361,"date":"2023-12-20T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18361"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:55:39","slug":"ins-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Kochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About INS Kochi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0second ship of the\u00a0Kolkata-class\u00a0stealth guided-missile destroyers built under the code name\u00a0Project 15A for the Indian Navy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0constructed by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) in\u00a0Mumbai.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned into Indian Navy service on September 30, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It measures 164 meters in length and approximately 17 meters in width, with a full load displacement of\u00a07500 tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>The ship has a\u00a0Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) propulsion system, comprising four powerful reversible gas turbines.<\/li>\n<li>It can attain speeds in excess of 30 knots.<\/li>\n<li>The ship has a complement of 40 officers and 350 sailors.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with the advanced supersonic and long-range BrahMos Surface-to-surface Missile.<\/li>\n<li>The entire\u00a0anti-submarine weapon and sensor suite fitted onboard, consisting of\u00a0Indigenous Rocket Launchers (IRL), Indigenous\u00a0Twin-tube Torpedo Launchers (ITTL), and a bow-mounted New Generation\u00a0HUMSA Sonar, are fine examples of India\u2019s indigenous efforts in the field of underwater warfare.<\/li>\n<li>A state-of-the-art\u00a0Combat Management System (CMS-15A) has been integrated with the onboard weapons and sensors.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The ship is equipped to\u00a0operate two Seaking or Chetak helicopters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is BrahMos?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a supersonic cruise missile. It is a joint venture between the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India and NPOM of Russia. It is named after the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/indian-navy-evacuates-injured-sailor-from-hijacked-ship\/articleshow\/106131010.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Navy evacuates injured sailor from hijacked ship\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Kochi is the second ship of the Kolkata-class stealth guided-missile destroyers built under the code name Project 15A for the Indian Navy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18361","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\/18361","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=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}