A catamaran is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stabilized craft, deriving its stability from its wide beam, rather than from a ballasted keel as with a monohull sailboat. Catamaran is from a Tamil word, kattumaram, which means "logs tied together".
Incat Tasmania is a manufacturer of high-speed craft (HSC) catamaran ferries. Its greatest success has been with large, sea going passenger and vehicle ferries, but it has also built military transports and since 2015 it has built smaller river and bay ferries. Based in Derwent Park, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, it was founded by Bob Clifford.
The Landing Craft Utility (LCU) is a type of boat used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore. They are capable of transporting tracked or wheeled vehicles and troops from amphibious assault ships to beachheads or piers.
The Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) is the naval arm of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is classed as the country's most vital defence force due to its island geography. The SLN is responsible for the maritime defense of the Sri Lankan nation and its interests.
The Myanmar Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of Myanmar with 19,000 men and women. The Myanmar Navy currently operates more than 125 vessels. Before 1988, the Myanmar Navy was small and its role in the many counterinsurgency operations was much less conspicuous than those of the army and air force. Yet the navy has always been, and remains, an important factor in Myanmar's security and it was dramatically expanded in recent years to an external threat defence role in Myanmar's territorial waters.
The Car Nicobar class of high-speed offshore patrol vessels are built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) for the Indian Navy. The vessels are designed as a cost-effective platform for patrol, anti-piracy and rescue operations in India's exclusive economic zone.
Austal is an Australian-based global ship building company and defence prime contractor that specialises in the design, construction and support of defence and commercial vessels. Austal's product range includes naval vessels, high-speed passenger and vehicle ferries and specialist utility vessels such as offshore windfarm and crew transfer vessels.
The Tuo Chiang-class corvette is a Taiwanese designed state of the art class of fast and stealth technology based multi-mission corvettes built for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy to defend the democratic industrialized developed country of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from a foreign attack and invasion by the rival communist mainland People's Republic of China (PRC) or other hostile military forces. The warship is designed to destroy the aircraft carriers of communist China's navy and nicknamed "Taiwan's Aircraft Carrier Killer". The warship is equipped with the world's most technologically advanced computer microchips that are designed and made only in Taiwan and built partially with high-entropy metal alloys, that were invented by a Taiwanese scientist in 1995, for superior strength and durability and has state of the art stealth technology features that make the warship virtually invisible to radar detection, sonar/acoustic detection, infrared detection and electromagnetic detection, and has a reduced visual signature for lower detection rates. The Tuo Chiang is the "fastest and most powerful warship in Asia" and one of the most technologically superior and most powerful in the world. Developed under Taiwan's secret Hsun Hai program, the Tuo Chiang-class corvette is intended to take over many of the missions currently undertaken by larger, less maneuverable and more expensive frigates and destroyers as well as, in wartime, to function as an asymmetrical counter to larger enemy warships, submarines and aircraft carriers. The prototype ROCS Tuo Chiang (PGG-618) was launched on 14 March 2014 and commissioned on 23 December 2014. With the completion and successful testing of the prototype in 2014, Taiwan has continued to make new technological improvements and continuous upgrades to the next generation versions of the Tuo Chiang warship which has currently evolved into multiple models designed for different combat tasks and various naval operations. An additional eleven improved and upgraded Tuo Chiang warships are currently being constructed with the possibility of building even more pending approval from the Taiwan President.
INS Kabra is a naval vessel named after an island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. It belongs to the Car Nicobar class of high-speed offshore patrol vessels are built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) for the Indian Navy. Kabra was eighth in a series of 10 Fast Attack Crafts. The vessels are designed as a cost-effective platform for patrol, anti-piracy and rescue operations in India's Exclusive Economic Zone.
India's Ministry of Defence finalised a project for the procurement of four Landing Helicopter Docks in order to upgrade the Indian Navy's disaster response, amphibious warfare and island protection capabilities. The project is worth ₹16,000 crore, and tenders were issued in December 2013 to three domestic shipyards.
The Makar-class survey catamarans are a series of six 500 ton steel hull/aluminium superstructure Hydrographic Survey Catamarans being built by Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat) Ltd at its Bhavnagar shipyard for the Indian Navy. The ships are designed by an Australian naval architecture firm Sea Transport Solutions, which is based on Queensland's Gold Coast.
The ABG class of cadet training ships is a series of three vessels being built by the ABG Shipyard in Gujarat for the Indian Navy.
INS Shakti (A57) is a Deepak-class fleet tanker in service with the Indian Navy. She was built by Fincantieri, an Italian shipbuilding company based in Trieste. She is the second and final ship of her class. Shakti, along with her predecessor Deepak, is one of the largest ships of the Indian Navy.
The Manoram-class ferry are series of watercraft built by Inland Marine Works Pvt Ltd Port Blair, at its Chanch Shipyard, Gujarat for Indian Navy. They are fully air conditioned crafts and are fitted with modern navigational aids and have capacity to ferry 250 passengers.
GSL class of personnel ferries are series of six service craft built by state owned Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco for Indian Navy. They are general purpose utility auxiliary watercraft used for transportation of personnel in harbour. The vessels stationed at Mumbai harbour are planned to be succeeded by Manoram class ferry.
INS Poshak is a self-propelled fuel carrier barge built by M/s Shalimar Works, Kolkata for the Indian Navy.
Vice Admiral Satish Soni is a retired Indian Navy officer. He is a former Commandant of the National Defence Academy (NDA) and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Command and Eastern Command.
