INS Visakhapatnam formally dedicated to city of destiny

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• Recently, the India-made stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam was formally affiliated to the Visakhapatnam port.

• This marks the formal induction of the first of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers.

• The ship is on her maiden visit to the port city for participating in the MILAN-2022.

• ‘The warship has Dolphin’s Nose and ‘Krishna jinka’, the State animal, as its emblem.

• The ship symbolises India's matured shipbuilding capability and quest for the Make in India initiative towards achieving 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'.

• INS Visakhapatnam is the lead ship of P15B class of guided-missile stealth destroyers and was commissioned on November 21 last year.

• Under the P-15B (Visakhapatnam Class), a total of four warships were planned (Visakhapatnam, Mormugao, Imphal, Surat) to be inducted.

• These ships are amongst the most technologically advanced Guided Missile Destroyers of the world,

• It is also equipped to be deployed to fight in Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare conditions.

• These ships are also equipped with BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles and long-range Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM).