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| Lead ship of the Kamorta class corvette (Wiki Info) |
KOLKATA (BNS): The third anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette, designed under the ambitious Project-28 (P-28) by the Navy's Directorate of Naval Design, was launched in Kolkata on Tuesday.
The warship will be fitted with indigenous state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, including a medium range gun, torpedo tube launchers, rocket launchers and close-in weapon system.
Being built by one of India's leading shipbuilders, Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE), it has been named after an island - Kiltan - in the Lakshwadeep archipelago of India. The ASW Corvette was launched by Chitra Joshi from GRSE mainyard in the presence of Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral DK Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, GRSE, Rear Admiral (Retd) A K Verma and other officials from the Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces and West Bengal administration.
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