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Goa shipyard`s attack craft for Indian Navy launched
Panaji, Feb 17: The Indian Navy will shortly acquire the state-of-the-art attack craft, T-84 built by the Defence Ministry`s Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) and launched at its Vasco-da-Gama Jetty here today.
Panaji, Feb 17: The Indian Navy will shortly acquire the state-of-the-art attack craft, T-84 built by the Defence Ministry's Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) and launched at its Vasco-da-Gama Jetty here today.
The ship, launched by Linda McMahon, wife of Air Marshal M McMahon, will be delivered six months ahead of schedule to the Indian Navy to bolster its coastal surveillance and reconnaissance power.
Designed for co-ordinated sea-air search and rescue operations, the Rs 35 crore vessel is ideally suited for beach insertion and extraction of commando forces and high speed interception of small intruder craft over territorial waters.
The ship, with a displacement of 60 tonnes, has the latest structural, hydro-dynamic and propulsion features. It is propelled by two MTU engines which drive two ''articulated surface drive'' and ''surface piercing propellers'', enabling the craft to achieve its maximum sustained speed of 45-knots under normal weather conditions. It was purpose designed to carry state-of-the-art Electro-Optic Detection systems and armaments capable accurately destroying small high-speed crafts. The vessel, fitted with mk-20 naval stabilised gun system with 20 mm canon, can also be fitted with surface-to-surface missile systems.
The GSL authorities have said the ASD Propulsion System option provided the craft with excellent shallow water capabilities, including beaching, exceptional maneuvering, survivability and high redundancy.
The GSL had so far built 173 vessels for the Navy, including barges, tugs, landing craft utility, torpedo recovery vessel, survey craft, off shore patrol survey vessels and missile crafts. GSL recently bagged an order to build a moored pontoon for ONGC.
The GSL hoped to get order for five more super-fast patrol vessels, as it had built two such vessels, considered the fastest of their kind indigenously built crafts. Apart from the Air Marshal and Vice-Chief of Air Staff, controller of warship production and acquisition Vice Admiral J S Bedi, chairman-cum-managing director of GSL Rear Admiral Sampath Pilai, Director of Ship Production, Indian Navy, Capt R K Hirenmat and Flag Officer of Goa Naval area Rear Admiral S K Damle were present for the launch.
Bureau Report
Designed for co-ordinated sea-air search and rescue operations, the Rs 35 crore vessel is ideally suited for beach insertion and extraction of commando forces and high speed interception of small intruder craft over territorial waters.
The ship, with a displacement of 60 tonnes, has the latest structural, hydro-dynamic and propulsion features. It is propelled by two MTU engines which drive two ''articulated surface drive'' and ''surface piercing propellers'', enabling the craft to achieve its maximum sustained speed of 45-knots under normal weather conditions. It was purpose designed to carry state-of-the-art Electro-Optic Detection systems and armaments capable accurately destroying small high-speed crafts. The vessel, fitted with mk-20 naval stabilised gun system with 20 mm canon, can also be fitted with surface-to-surface missile systems.
The GSL authorities have said the ASD Propulsion System option provided the craft with excellent shallow water capabilities, including beaching, exceptional maneuvering, survivability and high redundancy.
The GSL had so far built 173 vessels for the Navy, including barges, tugs, landing craft utility, torpedo recovery vessel, survey craft, off shore patrol survey vessels and missile crafts. GSL recently bagged an order to build a moored pontoon for ONGC.
The GSL hoped to get order for five more super-fast patrol vessels, as it had built two such vessels, considered the fastest of their kind indigenously built crafts. Apart from the Air Marshal and Vice-Chief of Air Staff, controller of warship production and acquisition Vice Admiral J S Bedi, chairman-cum-managing director of GSL Rear Admiral Sampath Pilai, Director of Ship Production, Indian Navy, Capt R K Hirenmat and Flag Officer of Goa Naval area Rear Admiral S K Damle were present for the launch.
Bureau Report