Two frontline warships of the Western fleet, INS Mysore and INS Gomati, anchored off the Ettikkulam bay here on their maiden visit to the Indian Naval Academy (INA) at Ezhimala concluded their visit on Wednesday.
The warships which anchored off the bay on September 11 were here for three days when naval cadets of the INA got an opportunity to go on board the vessels and experience practical aspects of seamanship and navigation as also organisational and functional aspects of various departments and participate in seamanship, navigation and weaponry evolution, said a press release of the INA on Wednesday.
The Commanding Officers of the warships and crew were taken on a guided tour of the academic faculties and laboratories, warship simulator, weapon training centre, sail training centre, firing range, sports facilities, equitation training centre and other facilities at the INA, the release said adding that trainee midshipmen who are in their terminal stages of training got an opportunity to interact with the crew of the ships.
INS Mysore, a guided missile destroyer, was commissioned into the Indian Navy in June 1999. The vessel is also equipped with an array of weapons and sensors which include surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft and anti-missile guns and torpedo and anti-submarine rocket launchers.
INS Gomati is the third of the indigenously built Godavari class guided missile frigate and was commissioned into the Indian Navy in April 1988.
