Some Interesting Facts about
INS Kalvari
INS Kalvari
- Diesel Electric Attack Submarine
- Designed by French naval defence and energy company DCNS
- Manufactured by Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai.
- Named after the dreaded tiger shark, a deadly deep sea predator of the Indian Ocean.
- First of the six Scorpene-class submarines handed over by MDL in Mumbai
- The submarine, which has a speed of 20 knots, is equipped with sea-skimming SM-39 Exocet missiles and heavy-weight wire-guided surface and underwater target torpedoes
- Second one INS Khanderi is expected to be commissioned by mid-2018, with the third INS Karanj following by early-2019
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