Kolkata-class INS chennai launched
Workers and sailors wave from the warship INS Chennai after it was launched from the Mazgaon dock in Mumbai on Thursday. The third and last of the Kolkata-class warships, the INS Chennai, a 6,700-tonne destroyer 163 metres long and 16 metres wide, was launched using the pontoon-assisted method by Ms Elizabeth Antony, wife of defence minister A.K. Antony. The ship will be armed with the supersonic BrahMos surface-to-surface missile system and long-range surface-to-air missile system as well as indigenously-developed twin-tube torpedo launchers and rocket launchers. PHOTO: AFP