{"id":23891,"date":"2024-06-02T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23891"},"modified":"2025-04-07T05:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:09:40","slug":"ins-shivalik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-shivalik\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Shivalik"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INS Shivalik:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>lead ship of her class of stealth multi-role frigates<\/strong> built for the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first stealth warship built by India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is built at the <strong>Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL<\/strong>), located in Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>commissioned<\/strong> into the Indian Navy on April 29, <strong>2010<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a length of 142.5 m (468 ft) overall, a beam of 16.9 m (55 ft), and a draft of 4.5 m (15 ft).<\/li>\n<li>The ships displace about 4,900 tonnes (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons) at normal load and 6,200 tonnes (6,100 long tons; 6,800 short tons) at full load.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Maximum Speed: 32 knots (59 km\/h)<\/li>\n<li>It features <strong>improved stealth and land-attacking features<\/strong> over the preceding Talwar-class frigates.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also the <strong>first Indian Navy ship to use the CODOG propulsion system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with a <strong>mix of Russian, Indian, and Western weapon systems<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These include the 3.0-inch Otobreda naval gun, Klub and <strong>BrahMos supersonic anti-ship missiles<\/strong>, Shtil-1 anti-aircraft missiles, RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers, and DTA-53-956 torpedo launchers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Dharma Guardian?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an annual exercise and conducted alternatively in India and Japan. Aim of the Exercise is to foster Military Cooperation and enhance combined capabilities to execute joint operations in semi-urban environments under Chapter VII of United Nations Charter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/thesundaystandard\/2024\/Jun\/02\/navy-warship-shivalik-leaves-singapore-for-maritime-exercises-with-japan-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Navy warship Shivalik leaves Singapore for maritime exercises with Japan, US<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Shivalik is the lead ship of her class of stealth multi-role frigates built for the Indian Navy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23891","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\/23891","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=23891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}