News: Indian Navy’s guided missile destroyer INS Surat successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-air missile in the Arabian Sea.
About INS Surat
- It is the fourth and final stealth destroyer ship of the Project 15B- Guided Missile Destroyer Project and is popularly known as the Visakhapatnam-class.
- It represents an advanced iteration of the Kolkata-class destroyers built under Project 15A.
- It has been designed and constructed indigenously by the Warship Design Bureau of Indian Navy and Mazagon Dockyard respectively.
- It was commissioned by the Prime Minister in January 2025.
Features
- It ranks among the largest and most sophisticated destroyers in the world.
- Weapons: It is armed with supersonic Surface-to-Surface ‘Brahmos’ missiles and ‘Barak-8’ Medium Range Surface to Air Missiles.
- It is fitted with indigenously developed anti-submarine weapons and sensors, prominently the Hull mounted Sonar Humsa NG, Heavy weight Torpedo Tube Launchers and ASW Rocket Launchers.
- AI-enabled: It is Indian Navy’s first Al enabled warshiputilising indigenously developed Al solutions.
- It has a water displacement of 7,400 tons.
