India, Aug. 26 -- Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday lauded the Indian Navy at the commissioning of the two advanced stealth frigates - INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri - at the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.

Indirectly referring to the US, he said there's a country that has F-35 (fifth-generation fighter jet) flying in the air, while the Indian Navy has made a "floating F-35 warship".

"Today, you have launched the indigenous F-35 warship. One nation has a flying F-35 and you have built a floating F-35, that too Made in India," Rajnath Singh said at the event, according to ANI.

The two warships, part of the Indian Navy's state-of-the-art Project 17A, mark the first time that frontline surface combatants built at two differe...