President Murmu undertakes submarine sortie at Karwar naval base

President Droupadi Murmu connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) undertook a sortie onboard Indian Navy's frontline submarine INS Vaghsheer connected the Western seaboard.

Ms. Murmu became the 2nd President to undertake a submarine sortie. In February, 2006, APJ Abdul Kalam became the archetypal president to acquisition a submarine sortie.

Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi accompanied President Murmu during the sortie successful the Kalvari people submarine from the Karwar naval basal successful Karnataka, officials said.

The President is besides the Supreme Commander of the equipped forces.

"President Droupadi Murmu embarked the Indian Navy's indigenous Kalvari people submarine INS Vaghsheer astatine Karwar Naval Base," the President's secretariat posted connected societal media.

The President, donning a naval uniform, waved astatine naval unit earlier entering the submarine.

INS Vaghsheer, the sixth and last submarine of the P75 Scorpene project, was commissioned into the Navy successful January.

It is 1 of the astir soundless and versatile diesel-electric submarines successful the world, according to Navy officials.

It is designed to undertake a wide scope of missions, including anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, quality gathering, country surveillance, and peculiar operations.

Armed with wire-guided torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, and precocious sonar systems, the submarine besides features modular construction, allowing for aboriginal upgrades specified arsenic the integration of Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology.

The Indian Navy is processing Karwar basal considering India's semipermanent information interests successful the Indian Ocean region.