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INS Brahmaputra
Context:
The Indian Navy warship INS Brahmaputra, a frontline guided missile frigate, recently suffered severe damages due to a fire incident while undergoing maintenance at the naval dockyard in Mumbai.
About INS Brahmaputra:
- It is built by the state-run Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited.
- The ship is named after the Brahmaputra River flowing through Assam.
- The ship’s crest depicts a grey, one-horned Indian rhinoceros on a brown background over white and blue sea waves.
- It is the first indigenously built ship in the Brahmaputra class of guided missile frigates.
- It was commissioned into the Indian Navy in April 2000.
- This class of frigates represents an indigenous upgrade on the Godavari class of frigates and replaces the Talwar class.
- The ship is fitted with medium-range, close range and anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and torpedo launchers.
- It has a wide array of sensors covering all facets of maritime warfare and is capable of operating Seaking and Chetak helicopters.
- The next two ships in the class, INS Betwa and INS Beas were similarly named after rivers, with INS Brahmaputra serving as the lead ship.
- It is armed with an advanced arsenal that includes surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, medium-range guns, anti-submarine rockets, radars, sonars, and sophisticated electronic warfare systems.
- INS Brahmaputra, measuring 125 meters in length and 14.4 meters in beam, displaces 5,300 tonnes and can achieve speeds exceeding 27 knots.