Navy gets delivery of stealth frigate Mahendragiri; warship equipped with BrahMoS

NEW DELHI: Adding teeth to the country’s stealth warship fleet, the Indian Navy has received the transportation of precocious stealth frigate ‘INS Mahendragiri’ nether the Project 17A (Nilgiri-class) from the Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL).

The transportation of Mahendragiri, the 4th specified warship manufactured by MDL, connected Thursday marks a important milestone successful achieving self-reliance successful warship construction.Designed by the Warship Design Bureau, the state-of-the-art Mahendragiri reflects a quantum leap successful naval design, stealth, firepower, automation, and survivability and stands arsenic an admirable awesome of Aatmanirbharta successful warship building, said an authoritative statement.A full of 7 stealth guided-missile frigates were constructed by MDL and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers nether Project 17A, retired of which six person been delivered, INS Mahendragiri being the sixth.INS Mahendragiri was delivered successful little than 17 months from the transportation of the archetypal warship. The 5 already delivered to the Navy are INS Nilgiri, INS Himgiri, INS Udaygiri, INS Taragiri and INS Vindhyagiri.

P17A ships are fitted with an precocious limb and sensor suite similar MF-STAR progressive phased array radar, BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, and Barak-8 long-range surface-to-air missiles, designed for superior anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare. With an indigenous contented of 75%, the warship utilises precocious radar systems for surveillance and occurrence control.Project 17A frigates are versatile multi-mission platforms designed to code existent and emerging challenges successful the maritime domain.These ships are configured with combined diesel oregon state propulsion plants, comprising a diesel motor and a state turbine that thrust a controllable transportation propeller connected each shaft, and a state-of-the-art integrated level absorption system.Delivery of Mahendragiri showcases the design, shipbuilding and engineering prowess of the nation, and reflects the Navy’s unrelenting absorption connected Aatmanirbharta successful some vessel plan and shipbuilding.The stealth frigate task has progressive implicit 200 MSMEs astatine MDL and has enabled employment procreation of 4,000 unit straight and much than 10,000 unit indirectly.