GRSE to ready its first stealth frigate by 2023

Defence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), which is building three of the seven stealth frigates under "Project 17A", on Wednesday said the first ship will be ready by 2023.

The Project 17A-class frigate is a follow-on of Shivalik-class frigates, entailing indigenous construction of seven stealth frigates.

The Cabinet Committee on Security earlier in February cleared the Rs.50,000 crore project under which four of the ships would be constructed at Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL) in Mumbai and three in GRSE.

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