{"id":7427,"date":"2022-11-26T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:09:20","slug":"y-12705-mormugao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/y-12705-mormugao\/","title":{"rendered":"Y 12705 (Mormugao)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About\u00a0Y 12705 (Mormugao) :<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ship is 163 meters long and 17 meters wide, displaces 7400 tonnes when fully loaded, and has a\u00a0<strong>maximum speed of 30 knots.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apart from myriad indigenous equipment in the \u2018Float\u2019 and \u2018Move\u2019 categories, the\u00a0<strong>destroyer is also installed with the under-mentioned major indigenous weapons<\/strong>. The\u00a0<strong>overall indigenous content of the project is approx. 75%.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missiles (BEL, Bangalore)<\/li>\n<li>BrahMos Surface-to-Surface Missiles (BrahMos Aerospace, New Delhi)<\/li>\n<li>Indigenous Torpedo Tube Launchers (Larsen &amp; Toubro, Mumbai)<\/li>\n<li>Anti-Submarine Indigenous Rocket Launchers (Larsen &amp; Toubro, Mumbai)<\/li>\n<li>76mm Super Rapid Gun Mount (BHEL, Haridwar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Project 15B<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Project 15B (P15B) \/ Visakhapatnam-class is the latest destroyer design currently under construction for the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<li>These ships have been\u00a0<strong>designed indigenously<\/strong>\u00a0by the Indian Navy\u2019s Directorate of Naval Design, New Delhi. Each ship spans 163 meters in length and 17.4 meters in beam and displaces 7,300 tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>These ships will be propelled by four gas turbines to achieve\u00a0<strong>speed in excess of 30 knots.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to the Indian Navy, the P15B destroyers incorporate new design concepts for improved survivability, seakeeping, stealth, and maneuverability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1878523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y 12705 is 163 meters long and 17 meters wide, displaces 7400 tonnes when fully loaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7427","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\/7427","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=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}