Vindhyagiri

President Droupadi Murmu launched ‘Vindhyagiri’, at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd’s (GRSE) facility on the banks of Hooghly river. Vindhyagiri has been named after the mountain range in Karnataka. INS ‘Vindhyagiri’ is an advanced stealth frigate, or warship. This is the sixth of seven ships built under ‘Project 17 Alpha’ for the Navy. The first five ships of the project were launched between 2019 and 2022. This is the third and last stealth frigate that the Kolkata-based warship maker was contracted to build for the Navy under the project.

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