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Mazagon dock to deliver INS Visakhapatnam by Oct, INS Vela by March
YB WEB DESK. Dated: 6/16/2021 11:34:27 AM
New Delhi, June 15 Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDSL) will deliver the first of the four stealth guided missile destroyers to the Indian Navy by October and a Scorpeneclass submarine by the end of the fiscal year. The state-run company under the defence ministry, which has an order book of nearly Rs 50,000 crore, will hand over Visakhapatnamclass (Project 15B) destroyer INS Visakhapatnam to the navy in the next 3-4 months. The delivery is delayed because the pandemic disrupted operations. INS Visakhapatnam is the first of the four destroyers MDSL is building at its site in Mumbai which is also one of the largest that the Indian Navy will possess.