Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) delivered the first ship of Project 15B Class Destroyer Visakhapatnam to the INDIAN NAVY on 28 October.
Highlights:
In November, the ship is expected to be commissioned as one of India’s largest destroyers, with an overall length of 164 meters and a displacement of roughly 7,500 tonnes, and was built using indigenous steel.
The ship is a powerful platform that can perform a variety of operations and missions across the entire spectrum of maritime combat.
It is armed with long-range Barak-8 surface-to-air missiles and supersonic Brahmos surface-to-surface missiles, as well as indigenously produced anti-submarine weapons and sensors for undersea warfare.
It is armed with long-range Barak-8 surface-to-air missiles and supersonic Brahmos surface-to-surface missiles.
It is equipped with anti-submarine weapons developed in-house as well as sensors for undersea warfare.
It includes heavyweight torpedo tube and rocket launchers, as well as the Humsa NG hull-mounted sonar.
The ship can travel 400 nautical miles.