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Home» News»GRSE selected to provide Indian Navy with new ASW vessels
The India-based shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE) has been selected to provide the Indian Navy with eight new « Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts » (ASWSWC).
The future ASWSWCs crafts will replace the Abhay-class corvettes

GRSE selected to provide Indian Navy with new ASW vessels

The India-based shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE) has been selected to provide the Indian Navy with eight new « Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts » (ASWSWC).

Nathan Gain 29 Apr 2019

An RFP was issued by the Indian Navy to Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSU) shipyards and Indian Private Shipyards in April 2014, with GRSE emerging as the successful bidder. The seen-year US$ 900 million contract was signed today, April 29, between GRSE and the Indian Government. 

First of eight ship will be delivered within 42 months, followed by a delivery rate of two ships per year. « The present project will further consolidate GRSE’s position as a unique shipyard with all round capability to design and build ASWSWC warships with state of the art technology, » the shipyard said in a statement. The future ships will replace the Abhay-class corvettes in service since the 1980s with the Indian Navy.

Besides the ASWSWC program, GRSE is currently handling major projects with the Indian Navy, such as building three P-17A frigates, ASW Corvettes, LCUs and four Large Survey Vessels. 

According to GRSE’s statement, the ASWSWCs will have a displacement of 750 tons, a maximum speed of 25 knots and will complement a crew of 57. The vessels will be capable of « full scale sub surface surveillance of coastal waters, SAU and Coordinated ASW operations with aircraft. In addition, the vessels shall have the capability to interdict/destroy sub surface targets in coastal waters ». They will also be capable to perform search and rescue operations, as well as aircraft monitoring and minelaying.  

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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