INS Mysore (D60)

INS Mysore
History
India
Name:	INS Mysore
Namesake:	Mysore
Ordered:	20 March 1992
Builder:	Mazagon Dock Limited
Launched:	4 June 1993
Commissioned:	2 June 1999
Identification:	Pennant number: D60
Motto:	Na Bhibheti Kadaachana (Sanskrit for Always Fearless)
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Delhi-class destroyer
Displacement:	6,200 tonnes
Length:	163 m (535 ft)
Beam:	17 m (56 ft)
Draught:	6.5 m (21 ft)
Propulsion:	2 × AM-50 boost gas turbines; 54,000 shp (40 MW) and 2 × cruise diesels; 2 shafts, 10,000 bhp (7.5 MW)
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)+
Range:	5,000 mi (8,000 km)
Complement:	360 (Including 40 officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	Air Surveillance; 1 × MR-775 Fregat MAE (NATO: Half Plate) planar array radar Surface Surveillance; 1 × Bharat RAWL (Dutch Signaal LW08) radar, operating at D-band frequency Navigation; 3 × MR-212/201 navigation radars, operating at I-band, JRC SATCOM Sonar; 1 × Bharat APSOH (Advanced Panoramic Sonar Hull) hull-mounted sonar
Armament:	16 × SS-N-25 SSM (4 quad launchers), 2 × SA-N-7 SAM launchers, 1 × 100 mm AK-100 gun, 4 × 30 mm AK-630 gatling guns, 2 × RBU-6000 Anti-submarine mortars, 5 × 10-21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 × Sea King helicopters

INS Mysore is a Delhi-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service with the Indian Navy.

INS Mysore was built at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai. Her keel was laid down in February 1991 and she was launched on 4 June 1993. Sea trials began in the Arabian Sea in March 1999, and she was commissioned on 2 June 1999 by then Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Her first CO was Captain Rajiv Dhamdhere.

She is the successor to INS Mysore that served in the Indian Navy from 1957 to 1985. Her crest features a double-headed eagle (Gandaberunda) from the sigil of the erstwhile House of Wodeyar of Mysuru.

In August 2008, Mysore along with the destroyer Ranvir, were anchored just outside Sri Lankan territorial waters to provide security for the Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, and other high-ranking officials at the 15th SAARC summit.

In November 2008, Mysore was deployed to the Gulf of Aden to replace the frigate Tabar as part of the Indian Navy's efforts to combat piracy off Somalia. On 13 December 2008, Mysore captured 23 sea pirates along with arms and ammunition when the pirates were trying to capture MV Gibe, a ship sailing under the Ethiopian flag.

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