{"id":255126,"date":"2023-08-07T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255126"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:40:53","slug":"india-launches-neerakshi-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-for-mine-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-launches-neerakshi-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-for-mine-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"India launches &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; &#8211; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for mine detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia launches &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; &#8211; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for mine detection\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Hindustan Times on 29th July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has launched an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle called &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; for detecting underwater mines.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Neerakshi?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neerakshi is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to detect mines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a collaboration of Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd and Aerospace Engineering Private Ltd (AEPL).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Functions: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can be used for a variety of functions ranging from mine detection to mine disposal to underwater survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It has an endurance of nearly 4 hours, and is capable of operating up to a depth of 300m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is the first of its kind in India and will be tested by the Navy, Coast Guard, and Army before being available commercially.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is part of GRSE&#8217;s broader ambitions to create autonomous sea surface vehicles, sea-based drones and explore green propulsion technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia launches &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; &#8211; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for mine detection\u201d\u00a0 published in Hindustan Times on 29th July 2023. What is the News? India has launched an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle called &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; for detecting underwater mines. What is Neerakshi? Neerakshi is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-launches-neerakshi-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-for-mine-detection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India launches &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; &#8211; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for mine detection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10595],"class_list":["post-255126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}