GRSE signs ₹32,000 crore deal for five warships armed with anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine warfare capabilities
These 4,950-tonne multi-role warships will be equipped with advanced surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, and state-of-the-art radar systems
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers has signed a ₹32,000 crore contract with the Ministry of Defence to construct five Next Generation Corvettes for the Indian Navy, significantly boosting India's indigenous warship-building capabilities. Equipped with advanced missile systems, modern sensors, and helicopter-operating capabilities, these multi-role warships will enhance maritime surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, and coastal defense. Furthermore, Goa Shipyard Limited secured a contract for three additional corvettes, raising the total value of these major naval procurement deals to over ₹53,800 crore.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers has signed a ₹32,000 crore contract with the Ministry of Defence to construct five Next Generation Corvettes for the Indian Navy, significantly boosting India's indigenous warship-building capabilities. Equipped with advanced missile systems, modern sensors, and helicopter-operating capabilities, these multi-role warships will enhance maritime surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, and coastal defense. Furthermore, Goa Shipyard Limited secured a contract for three additional corvettes, raising the total value of these major naval procurement deals to over ₹53,800 crore.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers has signed a ₹32,000 crore contract with the Ministry of Defence to construct five Next Generation Corvettes for the Indian Navy, significantly boosting India's indigenous warship-building capabilities. Equipped with advanced missile systems, modern sensors, and helicopter-operating capabilities, these multi-role warships will enhance maritime surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, and coastal defense. Furthermore, Goa Shipyard Limited secured a contract for three additional corvettes, raising the total value of these major naval procurement deals to over ₹53,800 crore.
In a major boost to India's indigenous warship-building programme, Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE), on Monday, signed a contract worth approximately ₹32,000 crore with the defence ministry for the construction of five Next Generation Corvettes (NGCs) for the Indian Navy.
The NGCs will be equipped with state-of-the-art capabilities, including advanced missiles, weapons and sensor suites, enabling them to undertake missions across the air, surface and sub-surface domains. The proposed weapon systems of the corvettes include Medium Range Anti-Ship Missiles, Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missiles (MRSAM) and 324 mm torpedo tubes.
The armament suite will also include an OTO Melara 76 mm Super Rapid Gun Mount (SRGM) with the latest upgrade, an AK-630 Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) and 12.7 mm Stabilised Remote-Controlled Guns (SRCGs) integrated with an Electro-Optic-based Fire Control System (EOFCS), the company said in a statement.
The sensor suite of the warships will include an Electro-Optical Infrared Search and Track (EOIRST) system and a Multi-Function Surveillance, Track and Guidance Radar (MFSTAR).
The corvettes, which will measure 127 metres in length and 17.6 metres in beam, with a specified deadweight tonnage of 4,950 tonnes, will also have helicopter-operating capabilities, enhancing their operational flexibility across a range of maritime scenarios.
The NGCs, designed for a wide range of maritime missions, will undertake multi-role operations, including offensive ship-to-ship and ship-to-surface missile attacks, anti-missile defence, anti-submarine warfare, escort duties, maritime interdiction operations (MIO), including Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS), and local naval defence.
The induction of these ships will significantly enhance the Indian Navy's operational capabilities in safeguarding maritime trade routes, strengthening coastal defence, undertaking littoral combat operations, and carrying out maritime presence and surveillance missions.
The warships will have an endurance of 14 days at sea without replenishment and a maximum speed of 26 knots. Designed to accommodate 11 officers and 139 sailors, the vessels will be built to the classification requirements of a Naval Headquarters-approved classification society.
The corvettes will feature an advanced Combined Diesel and Gas Turbine–Cross-Connect (CODAG-CC) propulsion arrangement, driving two Controllable Pitch Propellers (CPP).
The contract was signed by Dinesh Kumar, JS & AM (MS), Ministry of Defence, and Cdr Shantanu Bose (Retd), Director (Shipbuilding), GRSE, in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and senior officials in New Delhi.
GRSE had emerged as the lowest bidder (L1) for the prestigious project.
The ministry also signed a contract with Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) for the construction of three more corvettes, taking the combined value of the two contracts to ₹53,866.50 crore.