{"id":32221,"date":"2020-10-23T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=32221"},"modified":"2020-10-23T05:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:23:54","slug":"indian-navys-indigenously-built-stealth-corvette-ins-kavaratti-commissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-navys-indigenously-built-stealth-corvette-ins-kavaratti-commissioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy&#8217;s indigenously-built stealth corvette INS Kavaratti commissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane commissioned the Anti-Submarine Warfare stealth corvette INS Kavaratti into the Indian Navy at the Naval Dockyard. INS Kavaratti is the last of the four indigenously- built ASW stealth corvettes under Project 28 (Kamorta class) and has been designed by the Directorate of Naval Design, the Indian Navy&#8217;s in-house wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Touted as a potent Stealth ASW Corvette, Kavaratti is indigenously designed by the Indian Navy&#8217;s in-house organisation, Directorate of Naval Design(DND), and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders &amp; Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kavaratti has a state-of-the-art weapons and sensor suite capable of detecting and prosecuting submarines. In addition to its anti-submarine warfare capability, the ship also has a credible self defence capability and good endurance for long-range deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kavaratti takes her name from erstwhile INS Kavaratti which was an Arnala class missile corvette. The older Kavaratti distinguished herself by operating in support of was Bangladesh&#8217;s liberation in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane commissioned the Anti-Submarine Warfare stealth corvette INS Kavaratti into the Indian Navy at the Naval Dockyard. INS Kavaratti is the last of the four indigenously- built ASW stealth corvettes under Project 28 (Kamorta class) and has been designed by the Directorate of Naval Design, the Indian Navy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":32222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[257],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-32221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2020","tag-indian-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32223,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221\/revisions\/32223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32221"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=32221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}