INS Brahmaputra

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INS Brahmaputra

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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.

 

INS Brahmaputra

 

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.
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