India's First Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Ready To Join Navy


BANGALORE: Working on the agenda to make the nation self- dependant in manufacturing of defense equipment and not relying on imports, India's first indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kamorta is now ready, and commissioned to join the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet, reports Rediff.

Built by the public sector shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, the second warship from its flagship previously being the Kadmatt ASW, the Kolkata based company said it will be the first warship to be armed with an indigenous rocket launcher for anti submarine warfare.

The Indian Navy placed an order for the construction of four indigenous corvettes in 2003, and one among them being the INS Kamorta was laid down in November 2006. It was then launched in April 2010 and later scheduled to be commissioned into the Indian Navy in 2014.
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