{"id":6762,"date":"2020-03-02T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:20:21","slug":"yard-45006-vajra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/yard-45006-vajra\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard 45006 VAJRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Prelims: defence and security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vajra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6763\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vajra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vajra.jpg 980w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vajra-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vajra-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vajra-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the sixth Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) \u2018Yard 45006 VAJRA\u2019 to enhance coastal security was launched.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The OPV launched is the sixth in the series of seven OPV projects being built by M\/s Larsen and Toubro (L and T) Shipbuilding under the \u2018Make in India\u2019 policy<\/li>\n<li>OPVs are long-range surface ships capable of coastal and offshore patrolling, policing maritime zones, control and<br \/>\nsurveillance, anti-smuggling and anti-piracy operations with limited wartime roles.<\/li>\n<li>The ship would be utilized for day and night patrol\/surveillance along with anti-terrorist\/ anti-smuggling operations in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as well as Coastal Security.<\/li>\n<li>It will strengthen the efforts of Indian Coast Guard for securing over 7500 km vast coastline, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of over 20 lakh sq kms and more than one lakh merchant ships transiting per year through Indian waters for global trade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: defence and security Why in news? Recently, the sixth Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) \u2018Yard 45006 VAJRA\u2019 to enhance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}