With an aim to further augment the Indian Navy's mobility, reach and flexibility towards the accomplishment of its role and tasks in the Indian Ocean and beyond, 'Mormugao' a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer, is scheduled to be commissioned into the Indian Navy in the presence of the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, informed the Ministry of Defence on December 16.
The ship would be inducted at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on December 18.
The event marks the formal induction into the Navy of the second of the four 'Visakhapatnam' class destroyers, indigenously designed by the Indian Navy's in-house organisation, Warship Design Bureau and constructed by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, Mumbai.
The majestic ship measures 163m in length, and 17 m in breadth with a displacement of 7,400 tonnes and can rightfully be regarded as one of the most potent warships to have been constructed in India.
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