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Keep in mind brazil has a running program for nuclear SSBN/SSN as well as for an 'indigenous' 4+ gen fighter aircraft
As for missile tech they are almost up there in the top tier in some areas.
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arun wrote:
Singha wrote:for a economy whose GDP is $ is higher than India, all one can say is Brazil is punching well below its weight.
our CG has better ships than this harbour tug
I myself would not entirely agree. Check out this page on the Brazilian Navy's website regards its fleet inventory:

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To be fair Singha is correct their fleet is bit underwhelming bunch of Type 22s and light frigate from 2 decades ago. Brazil and Argentina had big naval ambitions in late 70s but economic woes and shifting priorities changed all that but Brazil has greatly increased spending in past few years not to the level of IN however.
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The type-22 and Niteroi frigates are very poorly armed. Why are they still stuck with MM-38 exocet? For the size of Brazillian coastline 14 frigate/corvette is too small. Since DCNS is helping with new subs they may go with FREMM or Gowind class for future.
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so, practice and procedure needs more streamlines.. INS Viraat ops should take serious note on such vulnerabilities and address the corrections.
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A similar accident happened with a IN frigate a few years ago and sunk the frigate. Luckily no one was hurt (the frigate had family members of IN personnel on board at that time).

These accidents happen because the Indian Navy has to share ports with commercial shipping. Essentially, it's because the government failed to fund proper naval bases for the IN. A country like India needs at the very least 5 Karwar size naval bases (when fully developed) and a dozen smaller bases.

The IN will get new frigates and destroyers in the coming years, I wouldn't want a USD 1bn IN destroyer to get sunk because of an accident like this. The IN needs to move away from overcrowded commercial ports to proper naval bases. But I don't think they'll get the land or funds for the construction of such bases.
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Agree that IN should not share ports withh commercial. We have one such base in Karwar intended for sole IN use. Build for decongesting Mumbai. Even now hardly any capital ships use it as Home port.

In this instance Viraat was in Cochin for repairs which can be handled only by Cochin Shipyard. Also Naval ships would have to visit the other ports periodically. It would not be feasible for having secluded Naval bases in every nook and corner of the company.

In the present scenario it was a lapse on the traffic control. We would need to have stricter traffic controls in the port, channel and sea lane much like air traffic control.
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Most naval bases adjoin commercial harbours, there are many reasons for the same.
The basic facilities for maintanence of hull ,machinery ,aux machinery on commercial and naval vessels
could be handled by the same infra structure, ensuring fuller use of the same. Also would u prefer being posted to a big city or a small naval town? most people would prefer the former.
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^^
All we need is better port traffic management plus such collision are actually not so rare even in the so called advanced western countries...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/us/na ... coast.html

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-navy-s ... 42532.html

USS Porter suffered following severe damage on the starboard side.. on 12th August, 2012 after colliding with a Japanese Oil Tanker in the strait of Hormuz.

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What is most incredible is that repair was done in flat 2 months and the ship joined the fleet back on 12th of October, 2012.
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Guys there is this Indian defense magazine which is free online. There was a link posted on BR sometime back. I forget the name. Its not force or Indiastrategic. It had a whole cover article dedicated to the IN a couple of months back. Anyone can think of any names?
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Geopolitics?
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Thats the one. Thanks a lot :)
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Good Page on LHD Program.

Multi-Role Support Vessel
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As part of naval week celebrations, they are allowing access to INS Tabar and INS Betwa from the Tiger gate. I took the tour yesterday and for a BRFite it was a 'Jannat'. I also saw other Talwar class Frigates, Delhi class destroyers, Kilos, HDWs, Fleet replenishment ship, ASWs and loads of missiles boats berthed in vicinity. I really had a good field day!

Today is the last day and timings are from 10 to 5. No cameras allowed :(

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How was delhi Class Destroyer Formed?
Delhi Class Destroyers were built at the Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai and commissioned in: INS Delhi- November 1997, INS Mysore- June 1999, and INS Mumbai- January 2001. The generic and chronological aspects of the Delhi-class destroyer are given in the subsequent paras.

Design development of the ‘10th, 11th and 12th frigates’ commenced in 1980. At the initial stage, these ships were to be designed as ‘follow-ons’ to the 7th, 9th and 9th frigates of Project 16 that were to be commissioned in the 1980s as the Godavari class.

Commander (later Rear Admiral and DGND) NP Gupta was associated with the design of Project 15 from the design stage till production commenced in end 1987. He recalls:

In July 1980, I was shifted to DGND and was asked to work on the design of Project 15 frigates. Work commenced with very brief Staff Requirements in the form of a note from the then DCPT. A new ship design was to be made, based on a mix of Soviet and Western weapon package similar to the Godavari class with the addition of Russian RBU 6000 anti-submarine rockets. Gas turbine propulsion was specified.

A very small design team developed the hull from in four months. This design of about 3,500 tonnes displaced and 124 meters LBP (a few meters longer than Godavari) was presented to the Naval Staff as well as the Material Branch, but could not be taken for model tests as the decision with respect to the weapon package and propulsion package ws finalized.

In September 1980, a request was made to the Soviet Union for an updated weapon package of Godavari plus RBU 6000.

During 1981, there was debate within Naval Headquarters on the selection of the Gas Turbine propulsion package. The contenders were the General Electric LM 2500 and the British Rolls Royce SM 1A. Two separate design studies were carried out in 1981 to integrate the SM 1 A and the LM 2500 in the designed hull. The SM 1 A did not find favour because of its development status and low power output.

During 1982, examination continued of a Western anti-missile defence option and of propulsion and weapon configurations.

In 1983, the Soviets offered a modern weapon package and also a propulsion package of a reversible gas turbine that made us completely change the platform design. The earlier hull form, of about 3,500 tonnes, just could not take the finally selected weapon and propulsion package. The redesign resulted in a ship 161 meters long and about 6,300 tonnes displacement. It was no longer a frigate. It became a destroyer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ocea ... nce_System

Cheen has apparently launched a triplet of satellites into orbit for radiolocation of emissions from naval ships.
this might feed into their ASBM plans. while US has the means and the teeth to use shipboard TBMD weapons or lasers to knock out low flying satellites,
the implications for India are more severe in that a DF21c ASBM launched from Yunnan(!) with zero warning could presumably even target our ships in
the bay of bengal if space based cueing and tracking were available(!)

http://minnickarticles.blogspot.in/2010 ... alter.html

On March 5, China launched the Yaogan-IX Naval Ocean Surveillance Satellite (NOSS), a “system intimately related to China’s ASBM program,” Easton said. “Unlike many space­based military satellites, Naval Ocean Surveillance Satellites are of a tactical and not strategic nature. They live and breathe to hunt and kill enemy ships.” Launched from the Jiuquan Space Center in Gansu province, the system — like earlier versions of the U.S. White Cloud NOSS —
consists of three small satellites that orbit in close formation.



A “first-generation” Chinese surveillance satellite, the Yaogan-IX carries millimeter­wave radar to help stay in good orbital formation, infrared sensors to spot ships, and antennae to pick up electronic emissions.



It “has serious implications for U.S. aircraft carriers due to its potential ability to find and track them, and its potential ability to cue land-based anti-ship ballistic missile [ASBM] systems as well as their associated sensors,” Easton said.


China launched two other reconnaissance satellites in this series in December: the Yaogan-VII electro-optical satellite Dec. 9 and the Yaogan-VIII synthetic aperture radar satellite five days later. All will work together to help Chinese ASBMs find their targets.



“The advent of the first Chinese NOSS is a watershed in terms of actual, precise, real-time targeting capability” because it will provide location data that is precise enough to guide an anti-ship ballistic missile, Easton said.



Once this technology matures, he said, the U.S. Navy will “face the unsavory choice of either risking the loss of its carriers to a Chinese first strike or having to take out the space-based eyes of China’s ASBMs with anti-satellite weapons and risk further escalation.” Erickson said a Chinese ASBM would affect U.S. strategy in the region, for even the “likelihood of a capability may have a large deterrent effect.”

Easton said regional air forces also should be concerned by China’s evolving NOSS capability, “for once mature, it could also be used to target mobile air-defense systems with pinpoint accuracy from great distances.” He said the ASBM could affect arms control, the militarization of space and many other issues.



“The ultimate conclusion one begins to come to is that U.S. carriers will very soon no longer be the uncontested juggernaut of the world’s seas,” he said
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I suspect much of the Thaad & SM2-IV work against "rogue iranian & north korean IRBMs" is actually testing ways and means both to tackle a tier of ASBMs and ASAT concepts to knock lots of satellites out. while India is sometimes careless and kanjoos, Khan didnt get to the top without being paranoid and willing to spend what it takes to be the big dog.
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I think some of the Irs satellites have ocean reconnaissance capability.
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Another aircraft carrier - this time the 25-year old Spanish carrier - available.

http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9378-el-p ... -en-ferrol

Doubt we'd do anything about it though even though the domestic shipyards are going to screw up the IAC delivery even further.
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Anther person who wants to buy everything available, before you lament why we are not buying, please make the case why we should buy it, how many aircraft, awacs can take off it etc. and why should the navy consider it. Regarding IAC-1, first time we are taking a project of this nature and there will be bound to be delays, but the knowledge gained is vital for us in the long run.
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RajitO wrote:Another aircraft carrier - this time the 25-year old Spanish carrier - available.

http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9378-el-p ... -en-ferrol

Doubt we'd do anything about it though even though the domestic shipyards are going to screw up the IAC delivery even further.

It is too small for the Indian navy to operate, in the absence of a genuine VTOL.
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RajitO wrote:Another aircraft carrier - this time the 25-year old Spanish carrier - available.

http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9378-el-p ... -en-ferrol

Doubt we'd do anything about it though even though the domestic shipyards are going to screw up the IAC delivery even further.
After the Vik fiasco, doubt that the IN would ever look at "cheap" 2nd hand carriers ever again!
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^^^

Vik is not the first time in the history of the world where out fitting an old ship has been as expensive as makeing a new ship. With the only a moderate increase in capabilities.

The IJN tried with the 4 Kongo class ships pre WW2, the Italians have dabbled in such action as well. But the results have never been worthwhile.

In just had the misfortune of learning this at its own expense.
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even for baby carriers the principe de asturais is bottom of barrel stuff.
good for gunboat diplomacy against mauritania or ivory coast perhaps but little else.
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Aditya_V wrote:Anther person who wants to buy everything available, before you lament why we are not buying, please make the case why we should buy it, how many aircraft, awacs can take off it etc. and why should the navy consider it. Regarding IAC-1, first time we are taking a project of this nature and there will be bound to be delays, but the knowledge gained is vital for us in the long run.
1. If I had said buy the Kitty Hawk + Enterprise + British Carriers + whatever you could make that assertion. How about a Plan B for a hypothetical scenario where we got screwed on both the Vik and IAC-1...oh wait, how about learning from how not having a Plan B allowed the Russkies to screw us over on the Gorky.

2. Availability for today's tasking is as important a criterion as all the fancy Dan capability that a new build would have for future wars (See Robert Gates chopping of heads in the USAF a while back). We can have a boys with toys attitude and turn up our noses at the bottom of the barrel stuff -totally ignoring that the Viraat is a busted boiler away (See Nimitz) from us having no tangible sea control capability. Even the mighty Yanks had no ego problems with buying decommed Harriers from the Brits when the F-35 procurement sh$$ hit the fan.

3. The golden era of big defence spending by India in the last decade is over for at least the next 4-5 years. Watch where critical economic indicators like the current account deficit, IIP, and fiscal deficit are headed if you think that is just random scare-mongering. If opportunistic, cut-price deals are available with financially beleaguered countries like Spain, or the UK, take it.

...and gunboat diplomacy against Maldives, or Somali pirates is pretty much what the tasking is going to be for now. The Chinese are still not ready with the Liaoning for us to sink with the shiny new toys we ordered.
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Pratyush wrote:
RajitO wrote:Another aircraft carrier - this time the 25-year old Spanish carrier - available.

http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9378-el-p ... -en-ferrol

Doubt we'd do anything about it though even though the domestic shipyards are going to screw up the IAC delivery even further.

It is too small for the Indian navy to operate, in the absence of a genuine VTOL.
Really?

http://www.military-today.com/navy/prin ... turias.htm

The standard aircraft complement is 24, although this can be increased to 37 in times of crisis with the aid of flight-deck parking. The standard aircraft mix is six to 12 AV-8Bs, two SH-60Bs, two to four AB 212 ASW helicopters, and six to 10 SH-3H Sea King helicopters.
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RajitO we are moving away from the sea Harriers, 6-12 we can manage with the Viraat, we hardly need this Spanish AC. better to chug along with Viraat until Gorky arrives and later IAC-1. The customisation required, i dont think there is case for this 25 year old Spanish which again need to go for long refit and aircraft customisation for Indian requirements. Better to let this go
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RajitO wrote:


http://www.military-today.com/navy/prin ... turias.htm

The standard aircraft complement is 24, although this can be increased to 37 in times of crisis with the aid of flight-deck parking. The standard aircraft mix is six to 12 AV-8Bs, two SH-60Bs, two to four AB 212 ASW helicopters, and six to 10 SH-3H Sea King helicopters.

Yes, really, the reason being that the F 35, is not yet available in VTOL version to India, the Harrier is nearly at the end of its service life. Virat will serve on till 2018. As a helo carrier. in addition to that, keeping in view, that fact the Vik will enter service by 2014 at the latest and the IAC by 2017, it makes no sense to buy a ship of such a limited utility.
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Pratyush wrote:
RajitO wrote:
As a helo carrier. in addition to that, keeping in view, that fact the Vik will enter service by 2014 at the latest and the IAC by 2017, it makes no sense to buy a ship of such a limited utility.
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Where are you getting 2017 from when AKA himself is sweating and unusually for him is warning the PSU shipyard that the new date of 2018 better be honored!

http://www.business-standard.com/genera ... ony/81347/
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Sigh........

2017/2018, how is the difference of 1 year going to make the second hand Spanish ship useful for the Indian navy, in the absence of a useful air group?


Also, when the IN is explicitly looking for 4 Multi role support ship, that can also be used as a helo carriers. As mentioned in the last page of this thread. What role will a second hand Helo carrier play in that fleet and for how long. Cause I am sure that, IN will not be buying the VTOL F 35 to make the second hand ship useful to it.

Please try to understand, when you propose, that a second hand weapon or a system be integrated in the armed forces. You must be clear about the role that is sought to be filled up, what kind of resources that will be consumed, and how it will function within the setup of the Indian armed forces in general.

Considering the investments made and planned by the IN on the Air groups, the N-LCA, and the 4 proposed Helo carriers, (One of the contending designes is Sapnish BTW,) where do you think a small second hand Helo carrier brought from Spain will fit.
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With lotsa experience, Indian shipyards take 10+ years to make a destroyer so I can extrapolate and say an Aircraft carrier would take 20+ year to build in an Indian shipyard. Forget anything war worthy named IAC in IN services before 2025. Would love a surprise if Kochin can deliver it.

10 years it took Russians to repair and rebuild an existing carrier, not sure when it'll be inservice. Chinese took 8 years restart and launch sea trials of another scrapped Russian aircraft carrier. Would take anothe 10 years before it gets ready for actual combat patrol.

The problem IMO is that MoD babus always buy this over optimistic BS from production and design teams. They need to bring-in, out-side experts as project consulatants for vetting these project proposals until the local MIC acquires skills to prepare these project plans properly and honestly.
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From Livefist:
Kalinigrad.ru reports that India's brand new stealth frigate INS Tarkash hit a mooring wall while departing the quay recently at the Yantar shipyard where it was built. The report quotes Yantar officials as saying that the ship did not suffer serious damage, and has continued its journey.
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http://www.bizxwires.com/?p=19177
Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) will produce 127 mm naval guns post successfully manufacturing 80 mm naval guns for the past two years. In this regard, the Haridwar unit of the company had already signed a contract with the union government. ...
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^^^^ one word Vulcano baby! 8)
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I guess this must be the one they are getting -
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/295 ... -flat.html
Navy’s sonar project falls flat; draws flak from CAG
Kalyan Ray, New Delhi, Dec 1, 2012, DHNS:

Warning system has been installed in two subs in 10 yrs

Indigenous sonar has been installed in only two operational submarines in the last 10 years, despite the manufacturer, the Bharat Electronics Ltd, agreeing to complete the job by 2007.

Developed by the Naval Physical and Oceanography Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi, the USHUS sonar can detect both ships and submarines from a few kilometers. The Defence Research and Development Organisation – the parent body of NPOL – had claimed that it is one of the best in the world.

The technology for which NOPL received a DRDO award from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was transferred to BEL, with whom the Defence Ministry had inked a Rs 167 crore contract to supply and commission the new age sonars for four Kilo class submarines between March 2003 and 2007.

Till date, the sonar has been installed in only three submarines, of which two have completed sea-acceptance trial.

Moreover, the Navy did not derive any tangible benefit from the Rs 167.64 crore investment because much of the sonars’ technical life has already expired, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said in its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
While the CAG did not identify the submarine or the sonar in its report, sources told Deccan Herald that the audit watchdog had reviewed the USHUS project.

The sonar was installed in two submarines in 2005, of which one completed sea trial in January 2011.

Delay in fitting

In 2008, it was installed in the third submarine that completed the trial in December 2011. The instrument has not yet been fitted in the fourth submarine.

At present, the Navy has 11 operational submarines, of which four to five are docked at shipyards at any given point of time for maintenance.

The first batch of new submarines (Project-75) has been delayed by three years.
The first Scorpene submarine, being manufactured at the Mazagaon Dock Ltd in Mumbai, will be ready by 2015 and the entire fleet of six submarines should be inducted by 2018.

The future of the second assembly line (Project-75I) hangs in balance. After receiving initial approval from the Defence Ministry in 2010, P-75I is stuck due to an improvisation made by the Navy in the original proposal, sources said.
Oh dear,yet another delay by a PSU.When will it ever end! Add to this the CAG's findings about the dumping of offsets in the C-17 and P-8 deals favouring Boeing (front page Ind.Exp.today),where "seminars",etc. where supposed to be the equiv. of offsets,the rot in the MOD gets more exposed by the day.
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Happy Navy Day guys.
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http://idrw.org/?p=16230#more-16230
On future inductions in the force in the next one year, he said, “In 2013, we expect to induct one Kolkata-class destroyer, one P-28 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette, one Catamaran Hull Survey Vessel, one Offshore Patrol Vessel and sixteen Fast Interceptor Craft (FIC).
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all three Kolkata class destroyers found side-by-side at different stages of build... well this image was found on a paki-def forum :( (sorry if this image was posted earlier on this thread or any other.)
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That is picture from Ajai Shukla ... This picture is actually more than an year old.

http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2012/08/ ... ps-by.html
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Philip wrote:http://www.deccanherald.com/content/295 ... -flat.html
Navy’s sonar project falls flat; draws flak from CAG
Kalyan Ray, New Delhi, Dec 1, 2012, DHNS:

Warning system has been installed in two subs in 10 yrs

Indigenous sonar has been installed in only two operational submarines in the last 10 years, despite the manufacturer, the Bharat Electronics Ltd, agreeing to complete the job by 2007.

Developed by the Naval Physical and Oceanography Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi, the USHUS sonar can detect both ships and submarines from a few kilometers. The Defence Research and Development Organisation – the parent body of NPOL – had claimed that it is one of the best in the world.

The technology for which NOPL received a DRDO award from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was transferred to BEL, with whom the Defence Ministry had inked a Rs 167 crore contract to supply and commission the new age sonars for four Kilo class submarines between March 2003 and 2007.

Till date, the sonar has been installed in only three submarines, of which two have completed sea-acceptance trial.

Moreover, the Navy did not derive any tangible benefit from the Rs 167.64 crore investment because much of the sonars’ technical life has already expired, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said in its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
While the CAG did not identify the submarine or the sonar in its report, sources told Deccan Herald that the audit watchdog had reviewed the USHUS project.

The sonar was installed in two submarines in 2005, of which one completed sea trial in January 2011.

Delay in fitting

In 2008, it was installed in the third submarine that completed the trial in December 2011. The instrument has not yet been fitted in the fourth submarine.

At present, the Navy has 11 operational submarines, of which four to five are docked at shipyards at any given point of time for maintenance.

The first batch of new submarines (Project-75) has been delayed by three years.
The first Scorpene submarine, being manufactured at the Mazagaon Dock Ltd in Mumbai, will be ready by 2015 and the entire fleet of six submarines should be inducted by 2018.

The future of the second assembly line (Project-75I) hangs in balance. After receiving initial approval from the Defence Ministry in 2010, P-75I is stuck due to an improvisation made by the Navy in the original proposal, sources said.
Oh dear,yet another delay by a PSU.When will it ever end! Add to this the CAG's findings about the dumping of offsets in the C-17 and P-8 deals favouring Boeing (front page Ind.Exp.today),where "seminars",etc. where supposed to be the equiv. of offsets,the rot in the MOD gets more exposed by the day.
The delay was not in production or installation of sonar system but in passing the sea trials. These teething troubles are common all over the world in varying degree. Although 5 years to complete the sea trial is a big streatch. Hopefully repeat orders will get executed much faster.
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