Business Insider:
To loosely paraphrase an oft-used quote, the best defense is a nuclear missile tracker. The Indian Navy is reportedly set to get a nuclear missile-tracking warship this December, according to media reports citing the official spearheading the project, Rear Admiral LV Sarath Babu.
The completion of the construction of the ship, which is called the VC11184 after the shipyard where it was built, marks the culmination of a five-year process. It is currently said to be undergoing harbour trials in Visakhapatnam as a precursor to a full-fledged trial in the sea. The main focus of the trial phase is to assess the efficiency of the ship’s surveillance hardware and tracking antennae.
The surveillance ship was built by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), a technical intelligence agency that reports to the Office of the Prime Minister. Construction on the the ship began in 2014 as part of a concerted effort to build a extensive shield system in the event of nuclear missile attacks.
