{"id":26478,"date":"2024-09-10T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2025-04-08T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:56:25","slug":"ins-malpe-and-ins-mulki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-malpe-and-ins-mulki\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Malpe and INS Mulki"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INS Malpe and INS Mulki:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are two <strong>indigenously designed<\/strong> and <strong>constructed Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Watercrafts (ASWCWC)<\/strong> built for the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<li>This is the <strong>fourth and fifth ASWCWC<\/strong> being built <strong>for the Navy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are constructed by the <strong>Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL).<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The contract to build eight ASWSWC ships was signed between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and CSL on April 30, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>These vessels, <strong>known as the Mahe Class<\/strong>, will <strong>replace the current Abhay Class ASW Corvettes<\/strong> in the Indian Navy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The vessels are capable of conducting anti-submarine operations in coastal waters, <strong>low-intensity maritime and mine-laying operations<\/strong>, besides <strong>sub-surface surveillance <\/strong>and <strong>search and rescue operations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The vessels are 78.0 m long and 11.36 m wide, with a draught of about 2.7 m.<\/li>\n<li>The displacement is about 900 tonnes, with a maximum speed of 25 knots and <strong>endurance of 1,800 nautical miles<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The ships are designed to <strong>fit indigenously developed<\/strong>, state-of-the-art <strong>SONARS<\/strong> for underwater surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>They are equipped with light-weight <strong>torpedoes<\/strong>, <strong>anti-submarine warfare rockets<\/strong>, a close-in weapon system, and remote-controlled guns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Torpedo?<\/h3>\n<p>A torpedo is a self-propelled, cigar-shaped underwater missile that is launched from a submarine, surface vessel, or airplane to destroy ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/two-anti-submarine-warfare-shallow-watercrafts-of-indian-navy-launched-at-cochin-shipyard\/article68621140.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Two anti-submarine warfare vessels for Indian Navy launched at Cochin Shipyard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Malpe and INS Mulki are two indigenously designed and constructed Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Watercrafts (ASWCWC) built for the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26478","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\/26478","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=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}