INS Anjadip, the new submarine hunter, joins Navy’s coastal security fleet

NEW DELHI: To boost the country’s anti-submarine warfare capabilities, the Indian Navy connected Friday commissioned INS Anjadip, besides known arsenic “Dolphin Hunter” arsenic it volition absorption connected detection, tracking and neutralisation of force submarines successful coastal areas.

INS Anjadip is the 3rd of the 8 vessels being built nether the anti-submarine warfare shallow h2o trade project.Commissioning the warship astatine the Chennai larboard successful the beingness of elder Navy, govt and ship-building officials, Navy main Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said the Navy aims astatine transforming into a 200-plus vessel maritime unit by 2035 and plans to induct 15 further vessels successful 2026. Noting that the conception of ‘atmanirbharta’ has progressed from ‘Make successful India’ to ‘Trust successful India’, helium said, “We person embraced aatmanirbharta not lone arsenic a strategical imperative but besides arsenic an concern towards aboriginal assurance.

” He said the Navy’s semipermanent imaginativeness is to execute implicit self-reliance successful ship-building astatine constituent level and germinate into a afloat ‘atmanirbhar’ unit by 2047.

Built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, INS Anjadip is simply a state-of-the-art vas specifically designed to code the challenges of the littoral combat environment— the coastal and shallow waters captious for the nation’s security.

INS Anjadip, which has been named aft the humanities land disconnected the seashore of Karwar, is the latest summation successful a bid of warships designed specifically for anti-submarine warfare (ASW). The vas boasts an indigenous contented of implicit 80%, showcasing India’s self-reliance successful warship plan and defence electronics. This includes the integration of cardinal indigenous systems, a merchandise said.The 77-meter-long, 1400-tonne vas is configured for accelerated effect and sustained operations successful a coastal environment.

The vessel is equipped with a modern ASW suite, an integrated precocious combat absorption strategy to efficaciously detect, track, and neutralise sub-surface threats, sensor package, including the hull mounted sonar Abhay, and equipped with lightweight torpedoes and ASW rockets.The commissioning of INS Anjadip followed its predecessors INS Arnala and Androth. These ships are the largest Indian naval warships propelled by waterjets and are besides equipped with state-of-the-art shallow h2o sonar.In summation to its superior ASW role, the agile and highly manoeuvrable warship is besides equipped to undertake coastal surveillance, low-intensity maritime operations and hunt & rescue operations.