Russia has built and handed over a new missile frigate to India

The Kaliningrad plant Amber"," part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), handed over to the Navy India the project 11356 missile frigate "Tushil" ("Shield") on December 9, 2024. The handover ceremony was held in the presence of Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

According to Izvestia, this is the fourth frigate built at the Kaliningrad shipyard for the Indian Navy. The ship successfully passed acceptance tests with the participation of the Indian commission, and its crew completed training in Russia.

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press service of the Government of the Kaliningrad region

Ilya Samarin, Director General of PSZ Yantar JSC, noted that during the construction process, Russian systems were integrated with the customer's equipment, as well as Indian specialists were trained for further service and construction of ships in India.

The construction of the frigate was carried out under a contract between Rosoboronexport JSC and the Indian Navy, providing for the creation of two ships of this project. The second frigate "Tamal," which will be the eighth ship of this project for the Indian fleet, is being tested in the Baltic Sea. Its transfer is scheduled for 2025.

During the construction process, the Yantar plant used advanced Russian shipbuilding technologies and its own experience in creating similar ships for the Russian fleet. Project 11356 frigates with a relatively small displacement have high combat capabilities to combat surface, ground, underwater and air targets.

In 2024, naval cooperation was actively developing between Russia and India. In February, ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet - the Varyag cruiser and the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate - participated in the MILAN-2024 international exercises in the Indian port of Vishahapatnam. In June, the Russian government approved an agreement on the mutual dispatch of troops and warships on the territory of the two countries.^[1]

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