Goa Shipyard to Supply 12 Fast Patrol Boats to Indian Army

07.01.2021 North America
Goa Shipyard to Supply 12 Fast Patrol Boats to Indian Army

Goa Shipyard to Supply 12 Fast Patrol Boats to Indian Army

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The Indian Army inked a contract with Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) to procure 12 Fast Patrol Boats for surveillance and patrolling of large water bodies, including those in high altitude areas like Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh. Pangong Tso’s 134-km length is divided into eight ‘fingers’, military parlance for mountain spurs jutting into the water body that is contested by both sides. The lake is frozen with the onset of winters, and the Army plans to deploy around two dozen such boats by next summer.

The indigenously-built boats will be delivered by May 2021 by Defence sector Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), GSL.

The GSL will also carry out maintenance of these boats for four years, local media reported.

The need for these new high-speed boats to patrol the Pangong Tso lake was felt in the wake of the military tussle between the Indian and the Chinese troops, leading to the tense situation on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

 



 
 

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