The Navy will be commissioning one of its most advance warships INS Sahyadri today at Mumbai-based Western Naval Command headquarters. It will further enhance its stealth and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.

The warship, which is last of Project-17 undertaken by the Indian Navy, will be commissioned into service by Defence Minister AK Antony in presence of Admiral Nirmal Verma and other senior naval officials.

INS Sahyadri is the last ship in the series of stealth warships after INS Shivalik and Satpura by the Mazgaon Dock Limited (MDL).

Talking to AIR correspondent Manikant Thakur in Mumbai, Director Shipbuilding of the Mazgaon Dock Ltd Commander Raghunath said that Sahyadri was India's first warship with major stealth feature and a western gas turbine as till now Indian Navy was using Russian one.

The first two ships in the class — INS Shivalik and INS Satpura — were commissioned into service in April 2010 and August 2011. These ships have been performing various operations tasks in the Indian Ocean Region .