Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft vs BPS-500 missile boat

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Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft — licensed reference photograph

AWarships

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft

Corvette

Credit

Ministry of Defence · GODL-India · Resized · GODL-India · Source ↗ · Modified

BWarships

BPS-500 missile boat

Guided-missile corvette

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water CraftMahe class

78 m

Length source ↗

BPS-500 missile boatLength

62 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craftlarger figure on 0 of 1

None

BPS-500 missile boatlarger figure on 1 of 1

Speed+28%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

17 of 32 rows sourced on both sides

78mMahe class

62m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

77.6 m

Arnala class

Single source

78 m

Mahe class

Single source

Configuration

Details

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft and BPS-500 missile boat configuration
Specification	Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft	BPS-500 missile boat
Power	—	2 × MTU diesel engine for 19,600 bhp (14,600 kW); 2 x Kamewa pump-jets^[source]
Name	Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC)^[source]	BPS-500 class^[source]
Builders	Cochin Shipyard (CSL) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) (in partnership with Kattupalli Shipyard of L&T )^[source]	—
Operators	Indian Navy^[source]	Vietnam People's Navy^[source]

Succeeded by	Next Generation Missile Vessels^[source]	—

Cost	₹ 12,622 crore (equivalent to ₹ 150 billion or US$1.5 billion in 2023) for 16 ships (FY 2020) ₹ 789 crore (equivalent to ₹ 929 crore or US$96 million in 2023) per ship (FY 2020)^[source]	—

Built	2020 – present^[source]	1998–2001, 2025–present^[source]

In commission	2025 – present^[source]	2001–present^[source]

Planned	16^[source]	4^[source]

Building	9^[source]	3^[source]

Completed	7^[source]	1^[source]

Active	6^[source]	1^[source]

Type	Corvette^[source]	Guided-missile corvette^[source]

Propulsion	3 × MTU 20V 4000 M93L ( Arnala class) 3 × L&T Water-jet propulsion^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Combat Suite: ASW Combat Suite (presumably the DRDO -developed IAC MOD 'C' combat suite) Sonar: DRDO Abhay Hull-Mounted Sonar (HMS) Low Frequency Variable Depth Sonar (LFVDS) Management Systems: Fire Control System (FCS) Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) Automatic Power Management System (APMS) Battle Damage Control System (BDCS)^[source]	MR-352 ("Cross Dome") search radar MR-123 ("Bass Tilt") fire control radar^[source]

Armament	Anti-Submarine Warfare: 1 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launcher 2 × triple lightweight torpedo launchers (presumably the Advanced Light Weight Torpedo (ALWT)) Anti-submarine mines (launched from mine-laying rails) Guns: 1 × Naval Surface Gun (30mm) 2 × OFT 12.7 mm M2 Stabilized Remote Controlled Gun^[source]	1 x AK-176 76 mm gun 1 x AK-630 30 mm CIWS 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-ship missiles 8 x Kh-35 Uran anti-ship missiles ( Ship 381 ) 8 x VCM-01 anti-ship missiles (from A2 onward) 1 x 9K38 Igla MANPADS^[source]