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SAIL supplied special grade steel for INS Kiltan

| @indiablooms | Oct 16, 2017, at 11:41 pm
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IBNS): Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) on Monday said it has supplied defence grade DMR 249A steel plates for the indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvette INS – Kiltan which was commissioned on Monday into Indian Navy.

It is the third of the four indigenously built AWS stealth corvettes under project 28 (Kamorta class) to join Indian Navy after sister ships INS Kamorta and INS Kadmatt. SAIL’s integrated functioning across all its Plants has again successfully supplied the required quantity of steel for this significant project.

DMR 249A is a low carbon micro-alloyed grade of steel with stringent toughness requirement at sub-zero temperature. SAIL developed this warship grade steel Plates for Indian Navy in collaboration with Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad.

SAIL has been supplying steel for Defence sector for a long time and its steel has been used in various other prestigious ship building projects. So far SAIL has supplied more than 50000 Metric Tonnes of DMR 249A defence grade steel for Naval Ships against various requirements.

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