Ocean surveillance ship
- The sea trials of India’s first and most prestigious missile tracking ocean surveillance ship built at the Ministry of Defence-owned Hindustan Shipyard Limited have received an encouraging response.
- After successful harbour trials, HSL is now conducting a series of sea trials to prove the ship’s resilience for any type of situation. It will be handed over to the Ministry of Defence shortly, the sources said, declining to specify a timeline.
- The ship, a highly confidential project, was taken out of the covered dock for harbour trials during the weekend.
- The hull for the ship was laid on June 30, 2014.
- The ship was built at an estimated cost of over $231 million.
