It looks like Mother Earth has a special place for Andhra Pradesh...In earlier centuries AP was famous for its Diamond Mines and in present it has coal ,iron ore ,Zinc ,Thorium ,Uranium etc..It looks like integrating Hydrabad into Union of India was the master stroke of Iron Man of India...
L&T
L&T wasvthe one who build the hull of our Nuc Sub...
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so I don't know about the capability of Pipavav but L&T definatly has the capability to built such sophisticated ships....
I doubt that...I think in present circumstances India can get better deal then 2013
Reasons
1}In 2013 Russian Ruble was hovering around 30 rubble per $ today it is hovering around 56 to 60 per $
2}Today Raw material cost is almost 30% to 40% (metal) lower then 2013...
3} Without Ukrainian...
Modiji is looking for our countries interest first and that is the only reason why we Indians have elected him as our Prime Minister....for that it doesn't matter wether our govt obstain from voting on Palestine resolution or we support the present Iran Deal..
for us India's interest should be...
The Idea is to build aerospace industrial base in India and for that you need local consumption...At the end of the day nobody is going shift their factories in India if they so't see local market.
New thing here is Private sector...with Tata,Reliance,Mahindra and L&T getting involved you will...
Spanish themselves are facing problem with their S 80 Subs so I doubt IN will go for it...
Swedish have not desiegned any submarine in last 2 decades..and they are not even known for their subs..
Scorpene I doubt IN will put all its eggs in one basket..Not to forget the problems they had faces...