SAIL supplies special steel for Indian Navy’s INS Arnala
20 Jun 2025
June 19: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), the largest steelmaking Public Sector Undertaking, has supplied the entire requirement of special steel for India’s first indigenously designed and built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), ‘INS Arnala’, according to an official release. SAIL has also catered to the entire requirement of special steel for the other seven ASW-SWC corvettes being built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE). Partnering India’s march towards defence indigenization, SAIL had also supplied special steel in the past to INS Vikrant, INS Vindyagiri, INS Nilgiri, INS Surat, among other notable projects.