Rajnath commissions Navy's most capable warship INS Visakhapatnam

The 7,400-tonne ship is the lead vessel in a new class of four guided missile destroyers that Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai is building under Project 15B

The Indian Navy commissioned its tenth destroyer on Sunday, the 7,400-tonne Indian Naval Ship (INS) Visakhapatnam. This is the lead vessel in a new class of four guided missile destroyers that Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai (MDL) is building under Project 15B for Rs 35,800 crore, or Rs 8,950 crore per vessel.

The next three Project 15B destroyers will join the navy’s fleet at one-year intervals. They are named INS Mormugao, Imphal and Surat.

The tradition of naming the navy’s destroyers after Indian cities began with Project 15 – which yielded INS Delhi in 1997, INS Mysore in 1999 and INS