Kolkata: Taking another major step towards&nbsp;indigenisation, the fourth anti-submarine warfare corvette was&nbsp;launched from the Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers&nbsp;(GRSE) main yard here today.
Designed by the Directorate of Naval Design and built by&nbsp;the GRSE, INS Kavaratti is the last of the four anti-submarine&nbsp;warfare class stealth corvettes being built under Project 28&nbsp;(P-28).
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/may/Kavaratti.jpg" alt="INS Kavaratti, the new submarine during launch of Anti-Submarine Corvette in Kolkata on Tuesday " />INS Kavaratti, the new submarine during launch of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette in Kolkata on Tuesday. Pic/PTI
The vessel has been named after the capital of Union&nbsp;Territory Lakshadweep and was launched by Manita Singh, wife&nbsp;of the Union Minister of State for Defence, Rao Inderjit&nbsp;Singh, who was also present on the occasion besides Chief of&nbsp;Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan and Vice Admiral Satish Soni.
Rear Admiral (retd) A K Verma, chairman and managing&nbsp;director GRSE and other dignitaries from the Armed Forces,&nbsp;Ministry of Defence and state administration were present at&nbsp;the event.
The corvette has a displacement of 3,300 tonnes, is 109.1&nbsp;metres in length and measures 13.7-m at beam. The vessel is&nbsp;propelled by four diesel engines to achieve speed in excess of&nbsp;25 knots and has an endurance of more than 3,400 nautical&nbsp;miles, a release by the GRSE said.
The hull of the ship is built with Warship Grade high&nbsp;tensile steel, indigenously developed for the first time and&nbsp;it has a common raft mounted gear box and diesel engines,&nbsp;which give the ship very low signature radiated underwater&nbsp;noise, it said.
Kavaratti is well-equipped to fight in nuclear, chemical&nbsp;and biological warfare conditions owing to its weapons and its&nbsp;sensor suite is predominantly indigenous.&nbsp;
GRSE's Engineering Division has manufactured and supplied&nbsp;the Anchor Capstan, Mooring Capstan and hydraulically operated&nbsp;Telescopic Boat Davits for this class of ships.
Further, the Division has also supplied the Rail Less&nbsp;Hello Traversing System being installed for the first time in&nbsp;any Naval ship in the country, the release added.&nbsp;

Taking another major step towards&nbsp;indigenisation, Indian Navy launched the fourth anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kavaratti&nbsp;was&nbsp;launched from the Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers&nbsp;(GRSE) main yard here today

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