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| PM Modi Likely to Induct India's |
| PM Modi Likely to Induct India's Largest Indigenously-Built Warship INS Kolkata in August
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| INDIA
, 16-July-2014
12:32:33 PM |
| After dedicating the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to induct the country's largest indigenously-built warship INS Kolkata in Mumbai in the last week of August.
The Prime Minister has already been invited to induct the largest indigenously-built warship, which is constructed by the Mazagon Dockyards Limited and has been designed by Navy's design bureau, defence officials said New Delhi.
The 6,800 tonne warship, which is over three years behind schedule, is a technology demonstrator and will showcase a giant leap in shipbuilding technology in the country, they said.
INS Kolkata will be a part of the Kolkata Class destroyers of the Indian Navy which will include INS Kochin and INS Chennai respectively.
The keel of the warship was laid down in September 2003 and the ship was launched in 2006.
Its original commissioning was planned in 2010 but due to several project delays, it will now happen in 2014. The ship had also suffered a mishap during the trial phase when a Navy officer lost his life during an incident in the fire-fighting equipment of the vessel.
As part of her pre-commissioning weapon trials at sea, the INS Kolkata test-fired a BrahMos missile off Karwar's coast earlier this month.
India is also building an over 40,000 tonne Indigenous Aircraft Carrier christened INS Vikrant but it will take another three-four years before it gets inducted into the Navy.
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