Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) has launched the second ‘advanced frigate' on order for the Indian Navy, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced in a statement on 22 March.

• It has been named Tavasya and is the second warship of its kind to be launched by GSL
• Tavasya's sister ship, Triput, took to the water at the shipyard's facilities in July 2024.
• Both frigates are follow-on hulls to India's Talwar (Project 1135.6)-class guided-missile frigate programme.
• A contract to build these two frigates was awarded to GSL in January 2019.
• Triput was laid down in January 2021 while the keel for Tavasya was laid down in June the same year.
• Both Triput and Tavasya have been acquired under a 2016 intergovernmental agreement between New Delhi and Moscow.
• Under the agreement, India acquired a total of four frigates that derive their design from Russia's Admiral Grigorovich (Project 11356M) class.