{"id":46120,"date":"2025-04-25T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=46120"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:59:52","slug":"ins-surat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-surat\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Surat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>INS Surat Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Indian Navy&#8217;s guided missile destroyer INS Surat successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-air missile in the Arabian Sea recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About INS Surat<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the fourth and\u00a0<strong>final ship of the Project 15Bstealth guided missile destroyer\u00a0<\/strong>class, popularly known as the\u00a0<strong>Visakhapatnam class.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It ranks among the largest and most sophisticated destroyers in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0<strong>75 percent Indigenous content<\/strong>\u00a0and is equipped with state-of-the-art weapon-sensor packages and advanced network-centric capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>designed by the Navy&#8217;s Warship Design Bureau<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Mumbai.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>commissioned\u00a0<\/strong>into the Indian Navy\u00a0<strong>in January 2025.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>INS Surat Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>Indian Navy\u2019s first Al (artificial intelligence)-enabled warship,<\/strong>\u00a0which will utilise\u00a0<strong>indigenously developed Al solutions<\/strong>\u00a0to enhance its operational efficiency manifold.<\/li>\n<li>With a displacement of 7,400 tonnes and an overall length of 164 metres, INS Surat is a potent and versatile platform equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, including\u00a0<strong>surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, and torpedoes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is powered by a Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) propulsion set comprising four gas turbines.<\/li>\n<li>It has speeds in excess of 30 knots (56 km\/h).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ins-surat-test-fires-surface-to-air-missile-in-arabian-sea\/article69487468.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Surat is the fourth and final ship of the Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyer class, popularly known as the Visakhapatnam class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-46120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ins-surat","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}