Context: Recently, Indian Naval Ship (INS) Sunayna has completed its 80-days long anti-piracy mission in Gulf of Aden.

About INS Sunayna

• It is the second Saryu-class patrol vessel of the Indian Navy.
• It is an indigenously designed and built Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV).
• It was built by state-owned Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) and was commissioned into the Navy fleet on 15 October 2013.
• It is designed to undertake fleet support operations, coastal and offshore patrolling, ocean surveillance and monitoring of sea lines of communications and offshore assets and escort duties.
• It is currently assigned to the Navy’s Southern Naval Command (SNC) based in Kochi.
• In June 2018, the vessel was involved in 'Operation Nistar', a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) mission to evacuate Indian nationals from cyclone hit Socotra islands, Yemen.
• INS Sunayna, along with Kolkata-class stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Chennai (D65), was also sent to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman under 'Operation Sankalp' in June 2019 to protect Indian shipping interests amid tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.