{"id":108299,"date":"2021-05-22T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=108299"},"modified":"2021-05-22T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:56:31","slug":"ussr-era-ins-rajput-decommissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ussr-era-ins-rajput-decommissioned\/","title":{"rendered":"USSR-era &#8220;INS Rajput&#8221; decommissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian Navy has decommissioned the INS Rajput at Naval Dockyard at Visakhapatnam after 41 years of service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About INS Rajput:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>INS Rajput <\/strong>was a guided-missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Rajput class of the Indian Navy. It was built by the erstwhile USSR (now Russia).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The missile destroyer <\/strong>was commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1980. It was also the first destroyer of the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: The ship is capable of attacking land targets as well as fulfilling anti-aircraft and anti-submarine roles as a task force or carrier escort.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The destroyer ship participated<\/strong> in several important missions over the years including:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operation Aman<\/strong> off the coast of Sri Lanka to assist the Indian Peace Keeping Force during Srilankan Civil War<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operation Pawan<\/strong> for patrolling duties off the coast of Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operation Cactus<\/strong> to resolve hostage situation of the Maldives and<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operation Crowsnest <\/strong>off Lakshadweep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, the ship<\/strong> has also served in the several missiles trials:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The ship was used as a trial platform<\/strong> for the BrahMos cruise missile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A new variant of the Prithvi-III <\/strong>missile was test-fired from Rajput in 2007.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ship also tracked the Dhanush<\/strong> ballistic missile during a successful test in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G6I8JP52S.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Navy has decommissioned the INS Rajput at Naval Dockyard at Visakhapatnam after 41 years of service. About INS Rajput: INS Rajput was a guided-missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Rajput class of the Indian Navy. It was built by the erstwhile USSR (now Russia). The missile destroyer was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ussr-era-ins-rajput-decommissioned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USSR-era &#8220;INS Rajput&#8221; decommissioned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,1738,9],"tags":[1434],"class_list":["post-108299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704849226},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}