{"id":72117,"date":"2025-11-05T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=72117"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:26:15","slug":"ins-savitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-savitri\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Savitri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>INS Savitri Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Naval Ship (INS) Savitri recently arrived at Port Louis, Mauritius as part of a Long-Range Operational Deployment to the South West Indian Ocean Region. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About INS Savitri<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>indigenously built Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Indian Navy.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was built by <\/span><b>Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>commissioned <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on 7 June <\/span><b>1990<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is under the <\/span><b>Eastern Naval Command<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> based at Visakhapatnam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship has wide-ranging operational roles, including <\/span><b>aerial surveillance and in search &amp; rescue roles.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a top speed of 15 knots (30 km\/h), the ship boasts impressive features such as the 40\u00d760 Bofors Gun and a <\/span><b>helicopter deck<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> capable of <\/span><b>operating the Chetak helicopter.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, INS Savitri has been deployed for various expeditionary missions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has taken part in patrols off the Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2185681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Savitri, an indigenously built Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Indian Navy, reached Mauritius for long-range deployment, supporting surveillance and rescue operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3562,246,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-72117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ins-savitri","9":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","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\/72117","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}