Navy gets ‘Malwan’ anti-sub warfare ship, first next-gen offshore patrol vessel

NEW DELHI: Indian Navy connected Tuesday received the transportation of ‘Malwan’, the 2nd anti-submarine warfare shallow h2o craft, built by Cochin Shipyard Limited successful Kochi. On the aforesaid day, the Navy besides launched a next-generation offshore patrol vas built astatine Goa Shipyard.INS Malwan draws its sanction from the coastal municipality of Malwan successful Maharashtra, a portion intrinsically linked to the illustrious maritime practice of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and besides encapsulates the bequest of the erstwhile INS Malwan, an Indian naval minesweeper which remained successful work till 2003, thereby continuing the naval contented of preserving distinguished warship names.The vessel — 80 metres successful magnitude and displacing 1,100 tonnes —is equipped for underwater surveillance, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations successful coastal waters, low-intensity maritime operations and excavation warfare capabilities.The archetypal of 11 next-generation offshore patrol vessels (NOPVs), Shachi (Yard 1280), was launched astatine Goa Shipyard Ltd. The vessel volition augment existing 10 OPVs/ NOPVs for multi-domain operations, specified arsenic defence & surveillance, hunt and rescue, extortion of offshore assets, HADR and anti-piracy missions.