Mumbai: Stealth-guided missile destroyer Imphal, which has an ability to fire extended-range supersonic BrahMos missile, was commissioned into the Indian Navy in Mumbai Tuesday.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar were present at the event that marked the formal induction into the Navy of the third of four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers, indigenously designed by the navy’s in-house organisation, Warship Design Bureau and constructed by defence PSU Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai.
INS Imphal is the first warship to have been named after a city from the northeast, said Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief, Western Naval Command.
INS Imphal was delivered to the Indian Navy October 20 after completing a rigorous and comprehensive trial programme both in the harbour and at sea.
PTI