INS Mysore (D60)
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 INS Mysore |
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| Career |  Indian Navy |
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| Ordered: | 20 March 1992 |
| Builder: | Mazagon Dock Limited |
| Commissioned: | 2 June 1999 |
| Motto: | Na Bhibheti Kadaachana (Sanskrit for Always Fearless) |
| Fate: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6700 Ton |
| Length: | 163 m |
| Beam: | 17 m |
| Draught: | 6.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft, 2 cruise diesels, 10,000 bhp; 2 AM-50 boost gas turbines, 54,000 shp |
| Speed: | 32+ Knots |
| Range: | 5000 miles |
| Complement: | 360 (Including 40 Officers) |
| Armament: | 16 SS-N-25 SSM (4 quad launchers), 2 SA-N-7 SAM launchers, 1 100 mm AK-100 gun, 4 x 30 mm AK-630 gatling guns, 2 RBU-6000 Anti-submarine mortars, 5 x 10-21 inch torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 Sea King Helos |
The INS Mysore is a Delhi-class destroyer of the Indian Navy built in India.
The ship was commissioned in 1999, and is on active service as of 2008. INS Mysore is named after the city of Mysore in the State of Karnataka. The double-headed eagle from the sigil of the royal House of Wodeyar of Mysore is used in the crest of INS Mysore. The keel of the INS Mysore was laid down in February 1991 and launched on 4 June 1993. Sea trials began in the Arabian Sea in March 1999, and it was commissioned on 2 June 1999 by Shri.Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The commissioning CO of INS Mysore was Captain Rajiv Dhamdhere.
This ship is the successor to another ship of the same name (formerly the HMS Nigeria). HMS Nigeria was British Fiji class cruiser that served the Indian Navy from 1957 to 1985.
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