India is to send two indigenously built warships to Sri Lanka, the country's minister of state for defence production said on Saturday.
"From Sri Lanka, we have received an order to build two off-shore patrol vehicles (OPV) and they are under construction in Goa Shipyard," Minister Rai Inderjit Singh, was quoted by the Times of India as saying, during an address at the delivery of warships to Mauritius.
The CGS Barracuda warship, priced at $58.5 million, was delivered to the Mauritian coast guard.
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