IMPHAL

About:

• Parent project? Imphal is the third ship after Visakhapatnam and Mormugao to be launched under a ‘Project-15B’.
  
  
• Bodies involved: It has been designed indigenously by the Navy's Directorate of Naval Design and is constructed at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders.
  
  
• Name: It is the first warship to be christened after a city in the north-east.
  
  
• Features:
  • Each ship under Project-15B spans 163-metre in length and 17.4-metre at beam, with a displacement of 7,300-tonne.
    
    
  • These ships, which can operate two multi-role helicopters each, are propelled by four gas turbines to achieve speed in excess of 30 knots.
    
    
  • These Guided missile destroyers incorporate new design concepts for improved survivability, sea keeping, stealth and manoeuvrability.