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GRSE lays keel for an advanced acoustic research ship
The Statesman Kolkata
|October 16, 2025
Going in sync with the idea of Atmanirbhar Bharat, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd laid the keel for an advanced Acoustic Research Ship (ARS) that it is building for the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), a unit of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) with the secretary of the Union Defence (R&D) and chairman of DRDO, Dr Sameer V Kamat, along with other eminent personalities.
Notably, the contract for the advanced ARS was signed between GRSE and NPOL in October 2024. With an overall length of 93 metres and width of 18 metres, the ARS will be a very advanced platform with state-of-the-art research equipment. It would also be capable of speeds ranging from 4 knots to 12 knots. At top speed, the ship will have an endurance of 30 days or 4,500 nautical miles in a single mission. It will have a complement of 120 personnel.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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