India’s first long-range nuclear missile tracking ship INS Dhruv commissioned

India’s first long-range nuclear missile tracking ship INS Dhruv commissioned

• India’s first nuclear-missile tracking ship, named INS Dhruv, has been commissioned from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, on September 10, 2021.
• The 10,00 tonnes satellite and ballistic missile tracking ship has been built by the Hindustan Shipyard Limited in collaboration with the DRDO and National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO).
• INS Dhruv is capable of tracking nuclear missiles at a long-range, which makes it useful to provide early warning of attacks by ballistic missiles launched from Pakistan and China.
• India now joins an elite list of countries consisting of  France, the US, the UK, Russia, and China, who possess and operate such ships.

Points To Remember:

1. Name of India’s first nuclear-missile tracking ship –  INS Dhruv
2. INS Dhruv built by?

Source: Hindustan Times