INS Dhruv: India’s Missile Tracking Ship - To Join Navy Soon

• 18 Mar 2021

• India is set to commission INS Dhruv to track satellites, strategic missiles and map the Indian Ocean bed later this year.
• It will act as an early warning system for adversary missiles headed towards Indian cities and military establishments.
• INS Dhruv has been developed with the help of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy with India’s Strategic Force Command and National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) as main intelligence consumers.
• The indigenously-developed surveillance ship has been built by Hindustan Shipyard Ltd at its Visakhapatnam facility under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan initiative.
• INS Dhruv is equipped with the active electronically scanned array radars, or AESA, considered a game-changer in radar technology, and can scan various spectrums to monitor satellites of adversaries that are watching over India. It can also understand the range and true missile capability of adversary nations that it finds in the Indo-Pacific.
• Once the vessel is commissioned, India will be the only country outside the P-5 - the US, the UK, China, Russia and France - to have this capability.