INS Chennai (D65) is the third and last ship of the Kolkata-class stealth guided missile destroyers of the Indian Navy.

She was laid down in February 2006, and was launched on 2 April 2010 by the then Defence Minister AK Antony's wife Elizabeth Antony at a function in Mumbai, and was commissioned on 21 November 2016 by the Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.

The ship's air defence capability, designed to counter the threat of enemy aircraft and anti-ship cruise missiles, revolve around the vertical launch, long range surface-to-air missile system, co-developed by DRDO.

INS Chennai is designed to carry the supersonic BrahMos surface-to-surface missile system.

[27] On 4 January 2024, the cargo vessel MV Lila Norfolk sailing from Port Du Aco in Brazil and bound for Khalifa Bin Salman in Bahrain was hijacked by pirates 460 nautical miles east off Somalia.

[29][30][31] On 5 January 2024, after providing warnings, the MARCOS commandos from the INS Chennai boarded the ship to rescue all crew members.