After 36 years of service, INS Ranjit to be decommissioned on Monday

May 03, 2019 18:20

After 36 years of glorious service, Indian Navy's front-line missile destroyer INS Ranjit will be decommissioned on Monday.

Commissioned September 15, 1983, INS Ranjit was the third of the five Kashin-class destroyers built by erstwhile USSR.

The ship will now be decommissioned at a solemn ceremony at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam. The ceremony will be attended by personnel who have served onboard INS Ranjit in the past and will also include officers and sailors from the commissioning crew.

The chief guest for the ceremony would be retired Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, Lieutenant Governor Andaman and Nicobar.

-- ANI

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