Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the newest indigenously-built destroyer INS Chennai into the force. This is a historic day for the Indian Navy,” Parrikar said, lauding the indigenously designed and constructed, Kolkata-class guided missile destroyer built by Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL) in Mumbai.

• Present on the occasion was Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba, as also top officers of Western Naval Command and other dignitaries.
• While INS Kolkata was the first ship in this class commissioned on 16 August, 2014, the second, INS Kochi, was commissioned on 30 September, 2015.
• After the commissioning, INS Chennai will be under the operational and administrative control of Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command.
• The INS Chennai undergo certain additional sea trials of the ship-borne systems before she will assigned to the Western Fleet and based in Mumbai.
• Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba, was also present on the occasion. With an overall length of 164 metres and displacement of over 7,500 tons, ‘INS Chennai’ is one of the largest destroyers in the Indian Navy’s fleet.
• The ship is armed with supersonic surface-to-surface BrahMos missiles and Barak-8 long range surface-to-air missiles. The ship is going to be assigned to the western fleet after completion of some additional trials of systems deployed on it. It is the final destroyer ship in this class.