Army chief Gen. Manoj Mukund Naravane will commission the anti-submarine warship (ASW) INS Kavaratti from the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam Naval Shipyard on Thursday.
Ahead of the ship’s commissioning, the Indian Navy, in a statement, said that the warship portrays the increasing capabilities of the force.
This is everything you need to know about INS Kavaratti:
(1.) It is the last of four ASWs built locally under the Navy’s ‘Project 28’ or Kamorta-class corvettes. It is an ASW class currently in service with the Navy.
(2.) ‘Project 28’ was approved in 2003. The other three warships in this project are INS Kamorta (commissioned in 2014), INS Kadmatt (2016) and INS Kiltan (2017).
(3.) INS Kavaratti has up to 90% indigenous content. The use of carbon compounds to build it has been described as a “commendable feat accomplished in Indian shipbuilding.”
(4.) The warship has been designed by the internal organization of the Navy, the Naval Design Directorate (DND). Meanwhile, Kolkata’s Garden Research Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has built it.
(5.) In addition, it has state-of-the-art weapons and a sensor that can detect and take action against hostile submarines. It also has good resistance for long-range deployments.
(6.) It has completed sea trials of all its systems installed on board and will therefore be put into service as a combat-ready platform.
(7.) INS Kavaratti derives its name from the namesake INS Kavaratti, which was an Arnala-class missile corvette. The former INS Kavaratti operated during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
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