{"id":22690,"date":"2023-06-20T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=22690"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:36:18","slug":"ins-kirpan","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/ins-kirpan","title":{"rendered":"INS Kirpan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India gifted the indigenously built in\u00adservice missile corvette<\/span><b> INS Kirpan to Vietnam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to enhance its naval capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About INS Kirpan:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INS Kirpan is a <\/span><b>Khukri class missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> corvette displacing 1,350 tonnes and was commissioned into the Navy in 1991.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A corvette is a small fast warship that is used to protect other ships from attack.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a displacement of close to 1,400 tonnes, a length of 91 metres, a beam of 11 metres and is capable of speed in excess of 25 knots.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship is fitted with a <\/span><b>medium range gun, 30 mm close range guns<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, chaff launchers and surface\u00ad-to-surface missiles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been <\/span><b>designed with multi-purpose capabilities,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including anti-ship warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and patrol missions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source:<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-gifts-missile-corvette-ins-kirpan-to-vietnam\/article66986653.ece#:~:text=India%20gifted%20the%20indigenously%2Dbuilt,counterpart%20General%20Phan%20Van%20Gang.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i> The Hindu<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 India gifted the indigenously built in\u00adservice missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam to enhance its naval capabilities. About INS Kirpan: INS Kirpan is a Khukri class missile corvette displacing 1,350 tonnes and was commissioned into the Navy in 1991.\u00a0 A corvette is a small fast warship that is used to protect other ships from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/ins-kirpan\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INS Kirpan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1907,1906,1908],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/22690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/22690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22690"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=22690"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}