INS Kochi - India's deadliest indigenous warship, missile destroyer - commissioned

Naval warship INS Kochi, the stealth guided missile destroyers, was be commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Mumbai: Naval warship INS Kochi, the stealth guided missile destroyers, was commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Defence Ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar this morning tweeted pictures of the event. 

DefMin @manoharparrikar commissions #INSKochi into the Indian Navy. pic.twitter.com/NgAfjilW6B — Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) September 30, 2015

DefMin @manoharparrikar : We will develop a real Blue Water Navy that will dominate Indian Ocean Region..1/2 pic.twitter.com/xQzz7G7owb — Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) September 30, 2015

...but will be considered friendly by neighbours. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/A7cf6Nqvjj

— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) September 30, 2015

The warship is designed by the Navy's in-house organisation, Directorate of Naval Design, and it is constructed by Mazagon Dock Ship builders Ltd in Mumbai. It has displacement of 7,500 tons and it is 164 metres in length and 17 metres at the beam.

The ship is propelled by four gas turbines and designed to achieve speeds in excess of 30 knots. The ship has a complement of about 40 officers and 350 sailors.

INS Kochi is packed with an array of state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, with a significant indigenous component. The ship has many lethal weapons to its credit which include the successful fitment of vertically launched missile system for long distance engagement of shore and sea-based targets.

The ship is one of the few warships of the world and the second in the Indian Navy to have Multi-Function Surveillance and Threat Alert Radar to provide target data to Long Range Surface to Air Missile system.

(With agency inputs)