Scorpene submarine“KHANDERI” – Indian Navy – Diligent IAS 22/09/2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau – Tags: Scorpene class submarine
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.
- INS KALVARI – commissioned
- INS KHANDERI – Under sea trials
- INS KARANJ – Under sea trials
- INS VELA – Under sea trials
- INS VAGIR – Will be delivered by 2022
- INS VAGSHEER – will be delivered by 2022
Source: PIB
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