India commissions third Kalvari-class submarine
11 March 2021
by Manasvi Shanker Sharma
Karanj, was commissioned into service at Naval Dockyard Mumbai on 10 March.
Karanj is one of six Scorpène SSKs being licence-built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in collaboration with France’s Naval Group under the IN’s INR230 billion (USD3.2 billion) Project 75 submarine programme.
The Indian Navy commissioned
Karanj
, its third Kalvari-class SSK, in a ceremony held on 10 March at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
(Indian Navy)
Karanj is the first submarine in the class for which the crew training was entirely Indian-led. Its commissioning follows that of first-of-class INS