Tushil: P1135.6

02 Nov 2021 Tushil: P1135.6

• Recently, the 7^thIndian Navy Frigate of P1135.6 class, named Tushil, was launched at Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad, Russia.
• The Indian and Russian governments had in October 2016 signed an agreement to construct four additional P1135.6 class ships two each in Russia and India.

Key Points

• Designed and built by Russia for the Indian Navy, the ship is formally named as ‘Tushil’.
• Tushil is a Sanskrit word meaning Protector Shield.
• Project 1135.6is also known as Talwar Class — a class of guided-missile frigates.
• These are modified Krivak III-class frigates which are also the main basis of the Russian Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate.
• India has six Talwar class frigates in service.
• This ship is a potent combination of state-of-art Indian and Russian Weapons and Sensors equipped to operate in Littoral and Blue waters, both as a single unit and as consort in a naval task force.
• They feature “stealth technology” in terms of low radar and underwater noise signatures.
• Stealth technology is a low observable technology that makes aircraft, fighter jets, ships, submarines, satellites, missiles etc less visible to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection technologies.
• It highlights the long standing tradition of Military Technical Cooperation between India and Russia.
• They will add more power to the Indian Navy operating in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

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