{"id":3254,"date":"2023-02-25T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T06:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:47:08","slug":"ins-sindhukesari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-sindhukesari\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Sindhukesari"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About INS Sindhukesari :<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>3,000-tonne Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>designed as part of Project 877<\/strong> and built under a <strong>contract between<\/strong> Rosvooruzhenie<strong>, Russia<\/strong>, and the Ministry of Defence (<strong>India<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>displacement of 3,000 tons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>maximum diving depth of 300 meters<\/strong>, a <strong>speed of up to 18 knots<\/strong>, and can<strong> operate solo for 45 days with a crew of 53.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Kilo-class submarines?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kilo Class is the <strong>NATO designation for a naval diesel-electric submarine made in Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>original version<\/strong> of the vessels were <strong>designated Project 877<\/strong> Paltus (Halibut) in Russia.<\/li>\n<li>They are mainly <strong>intended for anti-shipping and anti-submarine operations<\/strong> <strong>in<\/strong> relatively <strong>shallow waters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>first Kilo Class submarine<\/strong> entered service in the <strong>Soviet Navy in 1980<\/strong>, and the vessel continues to be in service in the Russian Navy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These submarines are <strong>70-74 meters long<\/strong>. It can travel at a m<strong>aximum speed of 10-12 knots when surfaced<\/strong> and <strong>17-25 knots when underwater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These vessels <strong>can carry up to eight surface-to-air missiles<\/strong> and <strong>18 torpedoes or 14 underwater mines.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a diesel-electric submarine?<\/h3>\n<p>As their name suggests, Diesel-Electric submarines run on diesel and electricity. They have a large network of batteries which are charged by the diesel generator. These submarines have to come up to the surface in order to charge their batteries .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/world\/indian-submarine-ins-sindhukesari-docks-in-indonesia-amid-south-china-sea-tensions-16024911.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian submarine INS Sindhukesari docks in Indonesia amid South China sea tensions<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Sindhukesari is a 3,000-tonne Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3254","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\/3254","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=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}