INS Brahmaputra:
The Indian Navy’s INS Brahmaputra warship, docked at Mumbai Dockyard for refitting, overturned under mysterious circumstances after a fire broke out, leading to significant damage, and one sailor reported missing.
- INS Brahmaputra is the first of the indigenously built ‘Brahmaputra’ class-guided missile frigates.
- The Brahmaputra class, which replaces the Talwar class, is an indigenous upgrade on the Godavari class of frigates.
- The class’s next two ships, INS Betwa and INS Beas, were similarly given river names; INS Brahmaputra is the class lead ship.
- It was built by state-run Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE).
- It was commissioned into the Indian Navy in April 2000.
- The ship is fitted with medium-range, close-range and anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, and torpedo launchers.
- The ship has a wide array of sensors covering all facets of maritime warfare and is capable of operating Seaking and Chetak helicopters.
