India’s Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) has delivered INS Mangrol, the third of eight indigenously designed and built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASW SWCs), to the Indian Navy.
The vessel was handed over at CSL’s Kochi facility on Friday. The delivery protocol was signed by CSL Director (Operations) Harikrishnan S. and Commander U. Sharan Kumar, the Commanding Officer (Designate) of INS Mangrol, in the presence of senior officials from the shipyard and the Navy.
Mangrol is designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare in shallow coastal waters and is equipped to conduct underwater surveillance, search and rescue operations and Low Intensity Maritime Operations (LIMO). It also has mine-laying capabilities.
The vessel is fitted with lightweight torpedoes, indigenous anti-submarine warfare rockets and advanced shallow-water sonars. It also has modern radar and other systems to help detect and track underwater threats in coastal waters.
The warship is powered by a diesel engine-waterjet propulsion system and was designed and constructed in accordance with the classification
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