Project 15A Destroyer INS Chennai To Be Launched Thursday

INS Chennai, the third of the Project 15A Indian-designed and built guided missile destroyers will be launched this Thursday at the Mazagon docks in Mumbai. The Chennai follows the Kolkata and the Kochi, which was launched last year. I was born and went to school in good old Madras (I still haven’t gotten round to calling it Chennai) — it’s still home in many ways. Nice to see they’ve named a big mean hunk of metal out of my city.

India’s first indigenous purpose-built stealth frigate, INS Shivalik gets commissioned next month. That’s going to be something major to watch out for.

8 thoughts on “Project 15A Destroyer INS Chennai To Be Launched Thursday”

  1. haha..Shiv I too cannot come around to calling it Chennai..for me its always going to be Madras, the city I was born in but only went to each summer vacation to visit my cousins..My first thought when I read it was going to be named INS Chennai was that it should've been INS Madras..:)

  2. Madras Nalla Madras!

    Man, I miss Madras! 🙂

    The sweltering heat, taking the rickshaw to school, flying kites, playing cricket in the hot sun, getting screamed at by my parents. Ah, the memories.

  3. 3 project 15B Kolkata class destroyers. 2 are already in the water, Kolkata and Kota. Chennai is going to be launched.

    They will be inducted in 6-8 month intervals 2 years from now.

  4. What's the long range SAM armaments for these destroyers? The Barak system? Will the Barak SAM have its range enhanced to be comparable to the Aster-30 and Standard missiles?
    How are the 15-B destroyers going to differ? Will they focus on stealth for the next batch and make them comparable to the Type-45 destroyers?

  5. India has ordered for 4 nos P15 B, Kolkata class is P15a just 3 nos(INS kolkata,INS cochin than INS chennai).
    INS chennai will have Barak 8 with 70km range SAM and Brahmos missiles .
    Project 15B will have 100km range barak ER Sam and hypersonic brahmos.

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