Indian Navy gets Make-in- India anti-submarine stealth corvette 'INS Kavaratti'

Indian Navy commissioned INS Kavaratti, with features such as state-of-the-art weapons and sensor suite capable of detecting and prosecuting submarines. It also has an anti-submarine warfare capability, wherein the ship has a credible self defence capability and good endurance for long-range deployments.

The ship was the last of four indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes under Project 28 (Kamorta class) and was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam.

Kavaratti is designed by the Indian Navy's in-house organisation, Directorate of Naval Design, and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, thus helping nation in becoming self-reliant through indigenization, thus, accentuating our national objective of “Atmanirbhar Bharat". The ship has up to 90% indigenous content and the use of carbon composites for the superstructure is a commendable feat achieved in Indian shipbuilding.

The ship has been commissioned as a combat-ready platform as it has completed sea trials of all the systems fitted onboard. Kavaratti takes her name from erstwhile INS Kavaratti which was an Arnala class missile corvette.

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