INS Kolkata is a part of the Kolkata class, also known as Project 15 A, of the guided-missile destroyers built for the Indian Navy. This class has two more ships- Kochi and Chennai, all constructed by MazagonDockLimited. They are said to be one of the biggest destroyers operated by the...
The contract for the construction of four Project 15B or Visakhapatnam-class destroyers was awarded to MDL in 2011 to gradually replace the Indian Navy’s existing ageing ofKolkata-class (Project 15A) destroyers. How well do youreallyknow your competitors? Access the most comprehensive Company Profi...
an Italian shipbuilding company based in Trieste. She is the second and final ship of her class. Shakti, along with her predecessor Deepak, is one of the largest ships of the Indian Navy.
800-tonne destroyers at a cost of $622 million each. First of its class INS Kolkata has already been delivered. The follow-on project 15B gave the Navy the option of placing orders for four more vessels in the same class. These ships carry short- and medium-range anti-air missiles...
ranging from small craft to destroyers, have been developed by the warship design organization from which more than 80 warships have been built. These include stealth frigates under the Project 17 Shivalik class, three destroyers of the Kolkata class under Project 15A, and anti-submarine warfare co...
“Occasional pages of history do record the faces of the ‘great destroyers’, but the whole book of history reveals mankind’s never-ending quest for peace and mankind’s God-given capacity to build.” Speaking of the atomic capacity of America’s communist adversary at the time, he said:...