{"id":38779,"date":"2023-12-27T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38779"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:50:18","slug":"ins-imphal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-imphal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Imphal | Capabilities, Strategic Significance of Visakhapatnam Class of Destroyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>About Project 15B<\/li>\n<li>About INS Imphal<\/li>\n<li>Significance of INS Imphal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>INS Imphal (Pennant D68), the third of four warships of Project 15B that together form the Visakhapatnam class stealth-guided missile destroyers, has been commissioned into the Indian Navy on 26<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Project 15B<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 2014 and 2016, the Indian Navy commissioned three guided missile destroyers of Kolkata class under a project codenamed \u201815A\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The Visakhapatnam-class destroyers, also classified as the P-15 Bravo class, or simply P-15B, is a class of guided-missile destroyers currently being built for the Indian Navy.\n<ul>\n<li>The Destroyers come next only to an Aircraft Carrier (INS Vikramaditya) in terms of their reach and endurance.<\/li>\n<li>The Visakhapatnam class is an upgraded derivative of its predecessor, the Kolkata class, with improved features of stealth, automation and ordnance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A total of four ships are being built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), under the Make in India\n<ul>\n<li>These four ships are Visakhapatnam, Mormugao, Imphal, Surat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The first vessel of the class, INS Visakhapatnam was commissioned in November 2021. The second ship INS Mormugao in December 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About INS Imphal<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These ships are equipped with BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles and long-range Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM).<\/li>\n<li>The ship has several indigenous weapons systems like medium range Surface-to-Air Missile (SAMs), indigenous torpedo tube launchers, anti-submarine indigenous rocket launchers and 76-mm super rapid gun mount.<\/li>\n<li>The class also has a total atmospheric control system (TACS) that offers protection to the crew from chemical, biological and nuclear threats.<\/li>\n<li>It can operate two multi-role helicopters, including Sea King or HAL Dhruv.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Significance of INS Imphal<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ship measures 163m in length, and 17m in breadth with a displacement of 7,400 tonnes and is amongst the most potent warships built in India.<\/li>\n<li>Technically, destroyers are a category of warships that have high speed, maneuverability and longer endurance.<\/li>\n<li>They are designed to be part of naval formations like a fleet or a carrier battle group also known as carrier strike group.<\/li>\n<li>The modern destroyers that are swift, sleek and difficult to detect, primarily protect the fleets and carrier battle groups from the short-range attackers from surface, air and sub-surface.<\/li>\n<li>The guided-missile destroyers are the destroyers that are armed with guided missiles for anti-aircraft warfare, anti-surface operations and anti-submarine warfare.<\/li>\n<li>Because of the speed, maneuverability and striking capability, the guided missile destroyers are a key asset in various types of naval operations, mainly offensive.<\/li>\n<li>Being a follow-on of the Kolkata class, the Visakhapatnam class incorporates not just the feedback and suggestions from the Navy but also several new features.<\/li>\n<li>The state-of-the-art stealth feature makes Visakhapatnam class have the radar signature of a very small ship. A very high indigenous component gives this platform a strategic edge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Scorpene Class Submarine?<\/h3>\n<p>The Scorpene submarines are conventional attack subs, meaning that they are designed to target and sink adversary naval vessels. Capable of launching a large array of torpedoes and missiles, they are also equipped with a range of surveillance and intelligence-gathering mechanisms.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) Which is India\u2019s first Scorpene Class Submarine?<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0INS Kalvari is the first Scorpene class submarine in India. It is one of the six Scorpene class submarines currently in service with the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/ins-imphal-commission-indian-navy-explained-significance-9082936\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>INS Imphal commissioned today: Its capabilities, and the strategic significance of Visakhapatnam class of destroyers\u00a0<\/u><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/ins-imphal-commissioned-indian-navy-indo-pacific-region-key-features-about-stealth-guided-missile-destroyer-11703611437202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MINT<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Imphal is a warship built under Project 15B for the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38779","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=38779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}