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Friday, July 11, 2014

India's first indigenously built ASW Corvette ready for battle

Kamorta class corvetteA dab of paint here and a bit of polish there. There is hectic activity at the Fitting Out Jetty (FOJ) of the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata.

The country's oldest defence shipyard is all set to sail out India's first indigenously-built and most advanced submarine hunter-killer. The INS Kamorta, the first Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette under the Navy's Project-28 will be formally handed over to the navy on Saturday.

After sailing from Kolkata in the next few days, with commissioning captain commander Manoj Jha in charge, the lethal platform will join the navy's Eastern Fleet at Visakhapatnam where a formal commissioning ceremony will be held in the last week of July, sources revealed.

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