INS Malvan, India's latest submarine hunter, launched.

India commissioned INS Malvan, the second Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, built under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat mission.

INS Malvan is armed with RBU-6000 rockets, DRDO torpedoes, and a German-Indian sonar suite.

The vessel is designed to hunt submarines in shallow coastal waters where China's underwater presence is expanding fastest.

INS Malvan is built almost entirely indigenously, strengthening India's undersea defence amid increased Chinese submarine activity in the Indian Ocean.