By PTI
MUMBAI: The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders right here on Wednesday launched INS Vagsheer, the final of the six submarines below Project 75.
The submarine was launched by Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar.
Post-launch, the submarine will endure a complete and rigorous set of assessments and trials for greater than a yr to make sure that it’s totally combat-worthy.
Named after sandfish, a lethal deep water sea predator of the Indian Ocean, the primary submarine ‘Vagsheer’ was commissioned in December 1974.
It was decommissioned in April 1997.
The new submarine is the newest incarnation of its earlier model, as based on naval parlance a ship by no means ceases to exist.
Even after a ship/submarine is decommissioned, a brand new ship/submarine replaces the outdated one with the identical identify.
In November 2020, the Navy commissioned the fourth submarine below Project-75.
In February, the ocean trials for the fifth submarine commenced.
INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi and INS Karang have already been commissioned.