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Eastern Naval Command (ENC) Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice Admiral Sanjay Bhalla announced that the ENC volition invited 2 caller warships to its fleet successful January 2026. In fact, the Indian Navy marked 2025 with the launching of 8 caller warships including these caller two. He added that 2025 has been peculiarly important for the ENC, marking a large enhancement of its capabilities.
Addressing a property league onboard the INS Himgiri astatine the ENC basal successful Visakhapatnam arsenic portion of the Navy Day celebrations, Vice Admiral Bhalla explained that retired of the 8 warships commissioned into the Indian Navy successful 2025, six ships person already been inducted successful the ENC, and the 2 much volition beryllium inducted successful January 2026.
“The 2 vessels are Taragiri, a Nilgiri-class stealth guided-missile frigate, and Anjadip, an anti-submarine warfare shallow h2o craft. The induction of INS Arnala and INS Androth, some ASW shallow h2o crafts, has strengthened our anti-submarine warfare posture successful the littoral environment. This is an country of increasing value fixed the rapidly evolving underwater menace landscape,” Vice Admiral Bhalla said.
“The induction of INS Nistar has fixed a large boost to the Navy’s underwater rescue and diving capableness - a specialised proficiency that lone a prime fewer navies successful the satellite possesses. Additionally, the induction of 3 Nilgiri-class stealth frigates— Udaygiri, Himgiri and Nilgiri —has substantially boosted the Navy’s blue-water onslaught capabilities,” helium said.
“All these ships, are equipped with the state-of-the-art indigenous sensors and weapons, and person enhanced our quality to behaviour surveillance, support deterrence, and guarantee robust maritime information on the Eastern Seaboard and crossed the wider Indian Ocean Region,” shared Vice Admiral Bhalla.
The commissioning of these precocious platforms is simply a beardown testament to India’s expanding shipbuilding capableness and to the Navy’s unwavering committedness to indigenisation and self-reliance, helium said.
Later, portion speaking astir the Navy Day celebrations, helium said that this year’s Operational Demonstration was held astatine Thiruvananthapuram connected Thursday (December 4), and the metropolis volition big the Vizag Navy Marathon connected December 14.
On Thursday morning, ENC commemorated Navy Day 2024 (December 4) with a solemn wreath-laying ceremonial astatine the Victory astatine Sea War Memorial successful Visakhapatnam beach. Vice Admiral Bhalla led the ceremony, which respective dignitaries joined, including territory collector M.N. Harendhira Prasad, constabulary commissioner Shankar Brata Bagchi, GVMC commissioner Ketan Garg among others.
