Mumbai: India has added another submarine to its fleet on Thursday with prime minister Narendra Modi dedicating 'INS Kalvari' to the nation at a function here.
This is India's first indigenously-built Scorpene-class submarine to be inducted into the Indian Navy after more than 17 years even as the navy's submarine arm celebrates it golden jubilee in 2017.
The submarine, incorporating state-of-the-art features, has been built by the Mazagaon Dockyard Ltd under its Project 75, with technological collaboration from DCNS, France.
Also present on the occasion were Maharashtra governor C V Rao, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, union defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state for defense Subhash Bhamre, French ambassador to India Alexandre Zeigler and chief of naval staff Sunil Lanba, besides many others.
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