Indian Navy Receives Third ASW Shallow Water Craft ‘Anjadip’

The Indian Navy on 22 December 2025 inducted Anjadip, the third of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASW SWC), strengthening its coastal and shallow-water anti-submarine capabilities.

Key Details

• Builder: Designed and built indigenously by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata
• Delivery Location: Chennai
• Execution Model: Public–Private Partnership between GRSE and L&T Shipyard, Kattupalli
• Classification: Built in accordance with Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) rules

Technical Features

• Length: ~77 metres
• Propulsion: Waterjet propulsion, making it the largest Indian naval warship to use waterjets
• Combat Systems:
  • Advanced lightweight torpedoes
  • Indigenously developed anti-submarine rockets
  • Shallow water sonar systems
• Role: Detection, tracking and engagement of underwater threats in coastal and shallow waters

Strategic Significance

• Enhances the Navy’s anti-submarine warfare capabilities in littoral zones
• Supports Aatmanirbhar Bharat through high indigenous content
• Waterjet propulsion improves manoeuvrability, speed, and operations in shallow waters

Legacy

• Named after Anjadip Island, off the coast of Karwar, Karnataka
• Carries forward the legacy of the erstwhile INS Anjadip, a Petya-class corvette decommissioned in 2003