Why is it in News?
→ Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft ‘Anjadip’ delivered to Indian Navy.
→ Strengthens coastal and anti-submarine defence capability.
Important Points
- Third of eight ASW Shallow Water Crafts.
- Delivered to Indian Navy at Chennai.
- Designed and built by GRSE, Kolkata.
- Named after Anjadip Island off Karwar coast.
- Reincarnation of erstwhile INS Anjadip decommissioned in 2003.
- Displacement capacity of 900 tonnes.
- Maximum speed of 25 knots.
- Endurance of 1,800 nautical miles.
- Largest Indian naval warship propelled by waterjets.
- Equipped with lightweight torpedoes, ASW rockets and shallow water sonar.