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Make in India- Kolkata Class Destroyer of the Indian Navy

INS Kolkata- D63 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Brehmemohan) In continuation of the "Make in India" series, each week we will be highlighting a particular technology or platform that is developed or being developed indigenously that will  act as the foundation for future platforms and technologies.  Today we feature the Kolkata Class Destroyers of The Indian Navy. The "Kolkata Class" is the next generation of Destroyers of the Indian Navy that is entering services right now. The class is a qualitative jump for the Indian Navy . With advanced weapons and sensors, the Kolkata class is the post powerful destroyers in the Indian Ocean rim. Highly capable with a high content of assorted weapon suites and sensors, the Kolkata class is capable of three dimensional warfare. Designed by the Indian Navy's Directorate of Naval design, the Kolkata class employs high degree of stealth with the reduction of radar cross section (RCS). It also employs

Know the Battle Ship- Destroyer

USS Zumwalt ( DD-X Class), Pic courtesy- Wikimedia commons and US Navy ( Today we start a weekly series called Know the battle ship. In each series we focus on a particular class of warships, their evolution and their present and future role. We start with the Destroyers, today considered the most potent surface combatant after Aircraft Carriers) In  naval  terminology, a  destroyer  is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance  warship  intended to escort larger vessels in a  fleet ,  convoy  or  battle group  and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. The first ship named and classified as a destroyer was the  Spanish warship Destructor (1886) , designed by Fernando Villaamil and constructed in England in the shipyard of James and George Thomson of Clydebank, near the Yarrow shipyards. By the time of the  Russo-Japanese War  in 1904, Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBD) were "large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other t