Larsen & Toubro has received an order from Hindustan Shipyard Limited for part construction of two Fleet Support Ships for the Indian Navy, the Indian conglomerate announced on July 9. “L&T will construct the two Fleet Support Ships at its greenfield shipyard at Kattupalli, near Chennai on the east coast of India. The FSS will be employed for replenishing ships …
The Indian Navy is justly proud of its warship building odyssey and its pioneering role in ‘Making in India’. For a long time, many of us, naval history lovers, believed that the journey of warship building in independent India began with INS Ajay, a small seaward defence boat in September 1960, made a huge leap with INS Darshak, a hydrography …
The Defence Ministry on Friday signed a contract with Hindustan Shipyard Ltd., Visakhapatnam, for the acquisition of five fleet support ships for the Indian Navy at an approximate cost of ₹19,000 crore. “It would be a major boost towards achieving the goal of self-reliance in defence manufacturing as these ships will be indigenously designed and constructed by HSL, Visakhapatnam,” the …
In line with the expanding military cooperation with South East Asian nations, an Indian Navy Kilo class conventional submarine, INS Sindhukesari, docked in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the first time from February 22 to 24. “Highly enriching engagements with the Indonesian Navy conducted during port call, strengthening maritime partnership between India and Indonesia towards safer and secure Indo-Pacific,” the Navy said …