{"id":5960,"date":"2022-12-21T05:49:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:26:05","slug":"arnala-ship-under-asw-swc-project-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/arnala-ship-under-asw-swc-project-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"ARNALA ship under ASW SWC Project launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the ARNALA ship:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ARNALA ship is built under <strong>ASW SWC Project.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Arnala class of ships will <strong>replace the Abhay class ASW Ships<\/strong> of the Indian Navy and are designed to undertake <strong>anti-submarine operations <\/strong>in coastal waters <strong>and Low-Intensity Maritime Operations (LIMO)<\/strong> including subsurface surveillance in littoral waters.<\/li>\n<li>The ship has been named Arnala to signify the strategic maritime importance accorded to <strong>the island of Arnala by the great Maratha warrior, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the ASW SWC Project?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft<\/strong> project under which many ships are being built for the Indian Navy<\/li>\n<li>The ASW SWC ships will be capable of <strong>detecting and neutralizing various underwater threats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>ASW SWC ships have a displacement of 900 tons with <strong>a maximum speed of 25 knots<\/strong> and an endurance of 1800 NM.<\/li>\n<li>These ships will have <strong>over 80% indigenous content, <\/strong>ensuring that large-scale defense production is executed by Indian manufacturing units thereby generating employment and capability build up within the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the ASW system?<\/h3>\n<p>Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1885185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pib<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASW SWC is a project to build ships capable of detecting &#038; neutralising various underwater threats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}