The Indian Navy on Monday commissioned INS Mahe, the first of the Mahe-class anti-submarine warfare shallow-water craft, which will form the first line of coastal defense, integrating seamlessly with larger surface combatants, submarines, and aviation assets.

 

Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi was the chief guest here at the commissioning ceremony of INS Mahe, marking the new generation of indigenous shallow-water combatants—sleek, swift, and resolutely Indian. INS Mahe’s commissioning not only adds a potent new platform to the country’s maritime order of battle, but it also reaffirms India’s maritime capability to design, construct, and field complex combatants with indigenous technologies, Gen. Dwivedi said.

 

The commissioning will significantly augment the Indian Navy’s ability to ensure near-seas dominance, strengthen the coastal security grid, and safeguard India’s maritime interests across the vast expanse of the country’s littoral waters. It also reaffirms the Navy’s steadfast transformation into a builder’s Navy, the one that designs, constructs, and sustains its own combat platform, he added.