Via PTI
MUMBAI: The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders right here on Wednesday introduced INS Vagsheer, the final of the six submarines beneath Undertaking 75.
The submarine used to be introduced by means of Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar.
Put up-launch, the submarine will go through a complete and rigorous set of checks and trials for greater than a yr to make certain that it’s totally combat-worthy.
Named after sandfish, a perilous deep water sea predator of the Indian Ocean, the primary submarine ‘Vagsheer’ used to be commissioned in December 1974.
It used to be decommissioned in April 1997.
The brand new submarine is the newest incarnation of its previous model, as in step with naval parlance a boat by no means ceases to exist.
Even after a boat/submarine is decommissioned, a brand new send/submarine replaces the previous one with the similar title.
In November 2020, the Army commissioned the fourth submarine beneath Undertaking-75.
In February, the ocean trials for the 5th submarine commenced.
INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi and INS Karang have already been commissioned.
