Indian Navy Commissions INS Mangrol, the Third Cochin Shipyard-Built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft
INS Mangrol, the third Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, was commissioned at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on 12 October 2026 by Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command. With over 80% indigenous content, it carries the Abhay hull-mounted sonar, lightweight torpedoes, an indigenous anti-submarine rocket launcher and the Maareech torpedo decoy system. Named after a fishing harbour in Gujarat's Junagadh district, it revives the name of the minesweeper INS Mangrol (M85), decommissioned in 2004. It follows the ICGS Ajit commissioning and the NGOPV Shreyas launch at GRSE.
Cochin Shipyard Limited was incorporated in 1972 and built INS Vikrant, India's first indigenous aircraft carrier | The Indian Navy's Western Naval Command is headquartered at Mumbai, the Eastern at Visakhapatnam and the Southern at Kochi | Maareech is an indigenous advanced torpedo defence system developed by DRDO's NPOL and NSTL