01 November 2021
Indian Navy receives first Project 15B guided-missile destroyer
by Gabriel Dominguez
The Indian Navy (IN) has received the first of four Project 15B guided-missile destroyers ordered in January 2011.
Named Visakhapatnam (pennant number D 66), the 163 m-long warship – which was launched in April 2015 – was handed over to the navy by state-owned shipyard Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in a ceremony held on 28 October at the company's facilities in Mumbai.
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