- Overview: The Indian Navy just amplified its underwater lethality. The Kalvari-class submarine INS Khanderi successfully deployed a swarm of next-generation, AI-guided heavy-weight torpedoes during a deep-sea combat drill in the Arabian Sea.
- Key Points:
- Autonomous Hunting: Once fired, these smart torpedoes do not require wire guidance from the submarine. They use onboard artificial intelligence to independently track, hunt, and destroy evasive enemy vessels.
- Counter-Measure Resistance: The AI is specifically trained to ignore acoustic decoys. It can mathematically distinguish between the sound of a real submarine propeller and a fake jamming signal.
- The Silent Killer: The INS Khanderi operates using a highly advanced diesel-electric stealth system. It can creep up on enemy carrier groups entirely undetected before unleashing a devastating torpedo barrage.
- Securing the Western Seaboard: This deployment sends a massive deterrent signal to adversarial navies attempting to expand their submarine footprint near India’s western coastline.
- Q3. The Kalvari-class submarines of the Indian Navy, such as INS Khanderi, are built domestically under ‘Project 75’ using the design of which famous foreign submarine class?
- Kilo-class
- Scorpene-class
- Akula-class
- Virginia-class
