India Navy INS Nipun Commissioned

Commissioned at Naval Dockyard Mumbai on 31 August 2026 in a ceremony presided over by the Chief of the Naval Staff, a month after her delivery at Visakhapatnam on 30 July. Nipun joins the Western Naval Command, giving it a dedicated diving platform alongside sister ship INS Nistar, commissioned in July 2025 with the Eastern Naval Command. Designed and built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited with roughly 75 percent indigenous content, the 9,350-tonne, 118-metre vessel carries saturation diving systems, a side diving stage and remotely operated vehicles, and acts as mother ship for the deep submergence rescue vehicle used to evacuate submarine crews.