Kalvari: 5 Facts About India's First Scorpene Class Submarine

BENGALURU: India has reached another milestone in the much needed augmentation of India’s naval capabilities with the undocking of the INS Kalvari, the Scorpene Class Stealth Submarine. And by 2020, all the other six Scorpene submarines being built at Mazagon Dock (MD Ltd) in collaboration with French from DCNS will be ready to serve the nation.

INS Kalvari the first boat of the series of stealth submarines commissioned will join the naval fleet in September 2016. As we welcome this new beauty into the India Navy, here are some facts we are ought to learn about Kalvari, as reported by ET and Daily Mail:

Kalvari is Indian Navy’s First Scorpene Class Stealth Submarine:

What is a Scorpene Submarine? The state-of-art features of the Scorpene class include superior strength and ability to launch a crippling attack on the enemy using precision guided weapons. Kalvari’s attack can be launched with torpedoes, the self propelled weapons with an explosive warhead, as well as with anti-ship missiles, underwater or above the surface.

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