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The INS Mormugao is said to be equipped with weapons and sensors, SSM and SAM, besides modern surveillance radar.
Key Takeaway
- Remarking that the state-of-the-art warship INS Mormugao was a major example of the country’s indigenous defence production capability.
- The warship, christened after the historic port city in the coastal State of Goa, was built by the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDSL).
INS Mormugao
- About
- The Warship Design Bureau, a division of the Indian Navy, created the ship’s design, and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. of Mumbai constructed it.
- The project’s four ships are given the names of four cities: Visakhapatnam, Mormugao, Imphal, and Surat.
- When fully loaded, the ship, 163 metres long and 17 metres broad, can travel at a top speed of 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38 mph) and carry 7,400 tonnes of cargo.
- The destroyer is outfitted with indigenous armaments and several native items under the “Move” and “Float” categories.
- About 75% of the project’s overall material is indigenous.
- In addition, each ship in the class is outfitted with a single OTO Melara 76 mm naval cannon.
Importance of INS Mormugao
- Strategic significance
- In a technical sense, destroyers are a class of warships that are fast, manoeuvrable, and have longer endurance.
- As a result, it will accompany larger ships in a fleet or a carrier battle group, also referred to as a carrier strike group.
- Modern destroyers defend fleets and carrier battle groups from the close-range surface, air, and subsurface attacks.Â
- In addition, they are quick, agile, and hard to spot.
- Guided missile destroyers are capable of anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare, apart from anti-surface operations.
- It possesses the radar signature of a very small ship thanks to its cutting-edge stealth technology, and its high indigenous component offers it a tactical advantage.
- The Visakhapatnam class is an essential tool in contemporary “network-centric warfare” due to its cutting-edge sensors and communication capabilities.
Surface-to-Surface Missile(SSM)
- Firstly, a surface-to-surface missile is a weapon fired from the ground and intended to strike targets on land or at sea.
- They might be launched from a handgun, a car, a ship, or ground installations.
- Since the launching platform is usually stationary or moving slowly, they are frequently propelled by a rocket engine or occasionally launched by an explosive charge.
- Furthermore, while hyper-velocity or short-range missiles may use body lift or fly a ballistic trajectory, they typically include fins and/or wings for lift and stability.
- India’s Surface-to-Surface missile
- Prithvi series of missiles – Min Range 150 Km and Max range is around 500 Km.
- Agni series of missiles – Min Range 700 km and max range is around 5000 Km.
- Nirbhay – Subsonic Cruise missile with a range of 1000 km
- Brahmos – Jointly Developed with Russia. It is the fastest cruise missile in the world, with a range of around 300 Km.
- Prahar – This is a missile with a range of 150 km.
 Surface to Air Missile(SAM)
- Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LRSAM)
- Firstly, DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries collaborated on the design and development of LRSAM.
- In Israel, LRSAM is also known as the Barak 8 missile, which in Hebrew means lightning.
- In addition, for both LRSAM/MRSAM (Medium Range Surface to Air Missile) the missile configuration is the same.
- Dual Pulse Propulsion System and other safe arm mechanisms for Solid Propulsion Systems were created by DRDO specifically for the LRSAM.
- Versions of the system that are land-based and maritime are both accessible.
- Furthermore, Missiles, MFSTAR (Radar), a weapon control system, a vertical launcher unit, and a two-way data link make up the LRSAM programme.
- ‘Maitri’ and ‘Spider’ are examples of LRSAM.
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