Anti-submarine warfare is nailed down for shallow watercraft

The 6th Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Watercraft BY 528, laid the keel of Magdala at Cochin Shipyard on Tuesday in the presence of Rear Admiral Satish Shenai, NM, Chief Staff Officer (Training), Southern Naval Command.

KN Sreejith, Director (Operations), Rajesh Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director (Ship Maintenance) S. Harikrishnan, CSL Executive Director (Shipbuilding), CMDE S Parthivan, WPS, Warship Inspection Team (Kochi), other senior officers of the Navy and representatives of shipyards and DNV Classification Society were present, a press release said here on Wednesday..

A contract for the construction of eight ASW SWC ships was signed on 30 April 2019 between the Ministry of Defense and Cochin Shipyard Limited. The Mahe class of ships will replace the Indian Navy’s in-service Abhay class ASW corvettes and is designed to perform anti-counterfeiting duties. – Supervise submarine operations in coastal waters, low intensity marine operations and mine laying operations including subsurface. The first ship in the series is targeted for delivery in March 2025, the press release added.

In another ceremony, a steel-cutting ceremony for the next-generation missile vessels for the Indian Navy was held at Cochin Shipyard on Monday. Commodore S. Parthivan, Warship Production Superintendent, Warship Inspection Team (WOT), Kochi conducted the steel cutting of the first steel plate for ship number BY-531, a press release said.

Cochin Shipyard signed a contract on 30 March 2023 for the manufacture and supply of six Next Generation Missile Vessels for the Indian Navy. The order value of these six vessels is ₹ 9,804 crore. Delivery of the first ship will take place in March 2027.