INS Mahe:
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) recently delivered the first of the eight anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft (ASW-SWC), INS Mahe, indigenously designed and built by it to the Indian Navy.
- It is the first of the eight anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft (ASW-SWC) of the Indian Navy.
- It is indigenously designed and built by the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL).
- Designed for a wide range of coastal defence missions, Mahe is equipped for underwater surveillance, search and rescue duties, Low Intensity
- Maritime Operations (LIMO), and complex mine-laying tasks.
- The ship’s design reflects extensive indigenous input, with over 90 percent of components sourced domestically.
- The 78-meter-long vessel is the largest Indian naval warship powered by a diesel engine-waterjet propulsion system.
- This advanced propulsion system ensures superior manoeuvrability and a reduced acoustic signature, crucial in anti-submarine operations carried out in littoral waters.
- Its compact design and high agility make it ideal for operations in shallow waters where conventional destroyers and frigates face navigational constraints.
- These ships are equipped with one RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launcher and two sets of light-weight torpedo-tube launchers for launching anti-submarine torpedoes.
