Chennai, 14th June 2023: An anti-submarine warfare watercraft vessel for the Navy was launched at the L&T at the Kattupalli Port in Chennai. The event also marked the presence of Vice Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Strategic Forces Command R B Pandit.
The ‘Anjadip’ ship is the third of the eight ships of the contract that was signed between Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata and the Ministry of Defence in April 2019.
An official release confirmed that the vessel was named after the island of Anjadip, located off Karwar Port, Karnataka, signifying its strategic maritime importance.
This comes as the ‘Arnala’ class of the ships built by the GRSE would replace the current ‘Abhay’ class of Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvettes of the Navy and are designed to undertake anti-submarine operations in coastal waters, low-intensity maritime operations, subsurface surveillance among others.
The ships are also designed to have 80% indigenisation, and each ship would measure about 77 m long and will have a displacement of 900 tons with a maximum speed of 25 knots and an endurance of 1,800 nautical miles.
