{"id":248768,"date":"2023-06-20T19:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248768"},"modified":"2023-06-20T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:28:39","slug":"india-gifts-ins-kirpan-to-vietnam-focuses-on-enhancing-defence-relations-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-gifts-ins-kirpan-to-vietnam-focuses-on-enhancing-defence-relations-security\/","title":{"rendered":"India gifts INS Kirpan to Vietnam, focuses on enhancing defence relations, security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndia gifts INS Kirpan to Vietnam, focuses on enhancing defence relations, security\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>20th June 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s Defence Minister and his Vietnamese counterpart have agreed to enhance industry cooperation and maritime security, given China\u2019s dominance in the South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific region.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key highlights from the India and Vietnam Defence Ministers meeting?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>India gifted INS Kirpan to Vietnam: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has gifted the indigenously-built in-service missile corvette <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INS Kirpan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Vietnam to enhance its naval capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><\/i><b><i>INS Kirpan<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a Khukri class missile corvette displacing 1,350 tonnes and was commissioned into the Navy in 1991.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It has a displacement of close to 1,400 tonnes, a length of 91 metres, a beam of 11 metres and is capable of speed in excess of 25 knots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The ship is fitted with a medium-range gun, 30 mm close-range guns, chaff launchers and surface-to-surface missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vietnam shows interest in Brahmos:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vietnam has shown interest in BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to augment its air defence systems and the talks are in early stages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><em>Note:<\/em><\/b><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> During the 2022 visit of India\u2019s Defence Minister to Vietnam, India handed over to Vietnam 12 high-speed guard boats built under a $100 million Line of Credit granted to it by India.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia gifts INS Kirpan to Vietnam, focuses on enhancing defence relations, security\u201d published in The Hindu on 20th June 2023 What is the News? India\u2019s Defence Minister and his Vietnamese counterpart have agreed to enhance industry cooperation and maritime security, given China\u2019s dominance in the South China&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-gifts-ins-kirpan-to-vietnam-focuses-on-enhancing-defence-relations-security\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India gifts INS Kirpan to Vietnam, focuses on enhancing defence relations, security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-248768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704025236},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248768","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}