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The Indian Navy will commission INS Imphal, the indigenously-built stealth guided missile destroyer equipped with BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles, on Tuesday in a boost to its maritime capability amid China’s increasing forays into the Indian Ocean region. INS Imphal is the first warship to have been named after a city from the Northeastern region, the approval for which was accorded by the President in April 2019. The commissioning ceremony will mark the formal induction into the Navy of the third of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers, indigenously designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organisation, Warship Design Bureau. As per recent reports,...
