This centre would provide a major boost to the indigenous warship design capabilities of Indian Navy, providing impetus to self-reliance

New Delhi: Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC the Chief of the Naval Staff, inaugurated the maiden 'state-of-the-art' Virtual Reality Centre (VRC) at the Directorate of Naval Design (Surface Ship Group), on Friday. This centre would provide a major boost to the indigenous warship design capabilities of Indian Navy, providing impetus to self-reliance and greater fillip to warship construction under Make in India initiative of the government.

While addressing the inauguration ceremony, Admiral Lanba complimented the Directorate for their untiring efforts, foresight and initiatives to conceptualise design and execute the project. "This project will facilitate collaborative design reviews for continuous interaction between the designers and the end users to improve the design and ergonomics onboard warships," an official release said.

Directorate of Naval Design (Surface Ship Group) had a humble beginning in the 1960s and since then has made major contributions towards indigenous warship design capabilities of the Indian Navy improving self-reliance for warship design and construction. The multi-disciplinary team has successfully developed 19 warship designs on which more than 90 platforms have been constructed to date.