Indian Navy launches third destroyer of `Project 15 Alpha`

Zeenews Bureau

Mumbai: Indian Navy’s third destroyer of Project 15 Alpha was launched by Elizabeth Antony, wife of Defence Minister AK Antony in Mumbai on Thursday.

The Kolkata-class destroyers have been in Mazgaon dock under the code name of Project 15 Alpha.

Project 15 A, although conceived as a follow-on of the earlier Delhi class, is technologically far more superior and has advanced weapons and sensors.

Speaking on the occasion, Antony said, “India will have to build ships indigenously, it cannot depend on foreign shipyards.”
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma, and south Mumbai MP Milind Deora were also present at the launch.