President to launch advanced frigate Vindhyagiri in Kolkata on 17 Aug

Category : National Published on: August 16 2023

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President Droupadi Murmu will launch Vindhyagiri, a Project 17A Frigate, on 17 August 2023 in Kolkata.
Named after a mountain range in Karnataka, Vindhyagiri is the sixth ship of the Project 17A frigates.
Under the Project 17A programme, four ships by Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) and three by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) are under construction.
The project’s first five ships were launched by MDL and GRSE, between 2019-2022.
INS Vindhyagiri—which was the sixth and last of the Nilgiri class frigates—in its nearly 31 years of service from 8 July 1981 to 11 June 2012, had seen many multinational exercises and performed maritime surveillance, coastal patrol and anti-piracy operations.
It was decommissioned after being damaged in an accident with a merchant vessel in 2011.