{"id":19005,"date":"2024-01-06T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19005"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T09:09:29","slug":"ins-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is INS Chennai?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About INS Chennai<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the Indian Navy\u2019s\u00a0indigenously designed and constructed guided missile destroyer.<\/li>\n<li>It is the third and last ship of the Kolkata-class\u00a0stealth-guided missile destroyers (Project 15A).<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0constructed by the\u00a0Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) at Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned into the Indian Navy on November 21, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It measures 163 meters in length and has a beam of 17.4 meters.<\/li>\n<li>Displacement: Over 7,500 tons.<\/li>\n<li>Top Speed: 30 knots (approx. 55 KM\/hour)<\/li>\n<li>It is powered by four reversible\u00a0gas turbine engines.<\/li>\n<li>It can\u00a0carry 350 to 400 people.<\/li>\n<li>Armament: It is armed with Vertical launch and long-range surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems like\u00a0supersonic BrahMos, \u2018Barak-8\u2019 Long Range Surface to Air missiles.<\/li>\n<li>The ship is equipped to fight under nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) warfare conditions.<\/li>\n<li>It is fitted with a\u00a0modern Surveillance Radar, which provides target data to the gunnery weapon systems of the ship.<\/li>\n<li>The ship\u2019s\u00a0Anti-Submarine Warfare capabilities are provided\u00a0by the indigenously developed Rocket Launchers and Torpedo Launchers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a P-8I aircraft?<\/h3>\n<p>P-8I is a long-range, multi-mission maritime patrol aircraft being manufactured by Boeing for the Indian Navy. It replaced the aging fleet of the Indian Navy\u2019s Tupolev Tu-142 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/navy-ins-chennai-vessel-hijacked-arabian-sea-15-indians-9096189\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>15 Indians among crew freed after Navy commandos board ship hijacked in Arabian Sea<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Chennai is the Indian Navy\u2019s indigenously designed and constructed guided missile destroyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19005","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\/19005","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=19005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}