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| Ship caption = INS ''Anvesh'' (A41), during its [[Sea trial|sea trials]]..
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| Ship name = ''Anvesh'' <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sea-trials-for-floating-missile-test-range-ins-anvesh-begin-this-month-101630984781024.html|title=Sea trials for floating missile test range INS Anvesh begin this month|date=2021-09-07|work=Hindustan Times|language=en-IN}}</ref>
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| Ship commissioned = 2022
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| Ship identification = [[Pennant number]]: A41
| Ship original cost = {{INR|425}} crore
| Ship status = In Service <ref>{{cite news|title=Indian Navy Song 2022: 'Hum Taiyyar hain'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf9zDKR7MW4&t=262s}}</ref>
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| Ship type = [[Ocean Surveillance Ship|Missile range instrumentation vessel]] and Floating Test Range (FTR)
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'''INS ''Anvesh''''' (formerly known as the '''DRDO Technology Demonstration Vessel'''), is a [[missile range instrumentation ship]] (also termed as a "Floating Test Range" (FTR)) built for the [[Indian Navy]]. Designed by the [[Defence Research and Development Organisation]] (DRDO) and built by [[Cochin Shipyard Limited]] (CSL), the ship was conceived to serve as a sea-based platform for India's [[Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme|ballistic missile defence program]].<ref name="thehindu" /> The ship was designed by [http://viksandvik.in/#home Vik-Sandvik Design India Pvt Ltd] (“VSDI”).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://viksandvik.in/|title=Vik-Sandvik Design India - Ship Designs & Naval Architectural Services in India|website=viksandvik.in|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref>

== Construction ==

The construction of the then-DRDO Technology Demonstration Vessel was awarded to the [[Cochin Shipyard|Cochin Shipyard Limited]] (CSL) by the [[Defence Research and Development Organisation|DRDO]] - India's premier agency for R&D in defence, in August 2015.<ref name=thehindu>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/cochin-shipyard-to-build-secret-vessel-for-drdo/article7902532.ece|title=Cochin Shipyard to build secret vessel for DRDO|last=Anandan|first=S.|date=2015-11-21|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-07-17|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> This vessel has a length of 118.4 metre, 20 metre width and 7.1 metre draft and having a steel weight of approximately 3900 tons.<ref name="CSL">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cochinshipyard.com/press/TDV_MEGA_BLOCK_ERECTION.pdf|title=TDV Mega Block Erection|last=|first=|date=27 January 2017|website=[[Cochin Shipyard]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

The original contract for the construction of the vessel was with [[Bharati Shipyard]], but time overruns forced by the yard's poor finances led to termination of the contract. Subsequently, the Cochin Shipyard won the bid to execute this project.

Steel plate cutting of the vessel was started on 10 August 2016. Dr S Christopher, Chairman, DRDO and Secretary, Department of Defence R&D, launched the mega block assembly of hull blocks of the ship (Ship No.20) on 27 January 2016 at CSL.<ref name=CSL/>

The ceremonial event of commencement of Mega Block Assembly of hull blocks of Ship No.20, the Technology Demonstration Vessel, being built for the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India was held on 27 Jan 2017 at CSL.

It is now being reported that the ship will commence the sea trial in September 2021 and will be commissioned by the end of 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sea-trials-for-floating-missile-test-range-ins-anvesh-begin-this-month-101630984781024.html|title=Sea trials for floating missile test range INS Anvesh begin this month|date=2021-09-07|work=Hindustan Times|language=en-IN}}</ref> DRDO has specific plans to use the vessel, equipped with electro-optical missile tracking, S-band radar tracking, telemetry devices apart from a launch pad, control and mission control center, for testing its phase II of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor missiles. The phase II of the BMD envisages intercepting and destroying enemy missile up to range of 5000 kilometers by kinetic force with the FTR allowing live testing of the [[Interdictor|interdictor]] missiles and not computer simulations.

== Commissioning ==

The ship had been quitely commissioned by [[National Security Advisor (India)| National Security Advisor]] Ajit Doval on unknown date. A photo of the commissioning ceremony has been made public for the first time in the Indian Navy Song 2022: 'Hum Taiyyar hain'. <ref>{{cite news|title=Indian Navy Song 2022: 'Hum Taiyyar hain'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf9zDKR7MW4&t=262s}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[INS Dhruv]]
* [[Strategic Forces Command]]
* [[Future of the Indian Navy]]
* [[Indian Ballistic Missile Defense Programme]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Missile range instrumentation ships]]
[[Category:Maritime vessels related to spaceflight]]
[[Category:Research vessels]]
[[Category:Research vessels of India]]
[[Category:Rockets and missiles]]
[[Category:Signals intelligence]]
[[Category:Defence Research and Development Organisation]]

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