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Barely a week before the end of the current (2008-09) financial year, The Indian Defence Ministry has cleared the construction of four Project-15 class stealth destroyers.
The four 6700 tonne destroyers will be built at state-owned Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL) over a period of 10 years at a cost of $2.4 billion. These destroyers of Project-15 B series are informally named as “City Class”.
City Class destroyers will have a modular superstructure and enhanced sound and infrared signature suppression measures to appear smaller on enemy radar. Besides, the destroyers new generation weapons and sensors are being developed indigenously or in joint collaborations.
The new destroyers will be equipped with 16 Brahmos cruise missile and two 24 cell vertically launched Long Range Surface to Air missile which will be built in collaboration with Israel.
MDL is currently constructing three Project 15A ‘Kolkata class’ destroyers. The first ship, Kolkata, will be inducted in 2012 and the two others, Chennai and Bangalore will be inducted by 2014.
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