🔆INS Imphal

✅Imphal, the third amongst the four Project 15B stealth-guided missile destroyers, was unveiled by the Defence Minister.

✅Imphal’s crest design depicts the Kangla Palace on the left and ‘Kangla-Sa’ on the right. 

✅The Kangla Palace is an important historical and archaeological site of Manipur and was the traditional seat of the past kingdom.

✅Kangla-Sa is a mythical being from Manipur with a dragon’s head and a lion’s body.

✅It is symbolic as the guardian of the people.

✅Kangla-Sa is also the state emblem of Manipur.

✅INS Imphal guided missile destroyer with a displacement of 7,400 tons and an overall length of 164 meters.

✅She is a potent and versatile platform equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, including surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes.

✅She is capable of achieving speeds in excess of 30 knots (56 km/hr).

✅The vessel has a high indigenous content of almost 75%.

✅This is the first capital warship to be named after a city in the North-Eastern region.


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