Scorpene submarine“KHANDERI”

(Ministry of Defence)

 

WHAT

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) delivered the second Scorpene submarine ‘KHANDERI’ to the Indian Navy.

 

KHANDERI

• The submarine ‘KHANDERI’ is named after the wide snouted Saw fish, a deadly sea predator of the great Indian Ocean.
• The first Submarine Khanderi was commissioned into the Indian Navy in December 1968 and decommissioned in October 1989.
• The Scorpene class of submarines can undertake multifarious tasks which include anti-surface as well as anti-submarine warfare.
• The constructions of third Scorpene at MDL, KARANJ, was started on 31st January 2018.

 

SCORPENE CLASS SUBMARINES

• The Scorpene-class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarines.
• They are jointly designed by the French Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN) and the Spanish company Navantia, and manufactured by the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDSL), Mumbai.
• It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion (AIP).
• Six Scorpene class submarines are being built under Project 75.

1. INS KALVARI – commissioned
2. INS KHANDERI – Under sea trials
3. INS KARANJ – Under sea trials
4. INS VELA – Under sea trials
5. INS VAGIR – Will be delivered by 2022
6. INS VAGSHEER – will be delivered by 2022

 

Source: PIB

 

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