<p>India's first indigenous stealth anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kamorta was Saturday inducted into the navy.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Defence Minister Arun Jaitley commissioned the warship, the first in a series of four planned corvettes, at the Naval Dockyard here.<br /><br />The first Indian Navy ship built with carbon fibre reinforced plastic, INS Kamorta was designed at the Directorate of Naval Design.<br /><br />The frontline warship is equipped with an array of anti-submarine warfare, anti-air and anti-surface weapons and sensors.<br /><br />INS Kamorata can carry short-range surface-to-air missiles and Active Towed Array Decoy System. It can also carry an integral anti-subamrine warfare helicopter.<br /><br />Jaitley said more than 90 percent of the ship was indigenous, and added that the government was promoting indigenous manufacturing in defence.<br /><br />"In recent months, amongst the various initiatives that the government has undertaken is indigenous manufacturing of our defence deployment," Jaitley said.<br /><br />The minister assured support for the ailing Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, a defence public sector undertaking in Visakhapatnam.<br /></p>
<p>India's first indigenous stealth anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kamorta was Saturday inducted into the navy.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Defence Minister Arun Jaitley commissioned the warship, the first in a series of four planned corvettes, at the Naval Dockyard here.<br /><br />The first Indian Navy ship built with carbon fibre reinforced plastic, INS Kamorta was designed at the Directorate of Naval Design.<br /><br />The frontline warship is equipped with an array of anti-submarine warfare, anti-air and anti-surface weapons and sensors.<br /><br />INS Kamorata can carry short-range surface-to-air missiles and Active Towed Array Decoy System. It can also carry an integral anti-subamrine warfare helicopter.<br /><br />Jaitley said more than 90 percent of the ship was indigenous, and added that the government was promoting indigenous manufacturing in defence.<br /><br />"In recent months, amongst the various initiatives that the government has undertaken is indigenous manufacturing of our defence deployment," Jaitley said.<br /><br />The minister assured support for the ailing Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, a defence public sector undertaking in Visakhapatnam.<br /></p>