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Tucked in a South Delhi residential hub, hundreds of miles away from sea, India's next generation of warships are silently taking shape on the drawing boards of naval architects.
The unassuming setting of the Directorate of Naval Design, in Kailash Colony, gives a flawed impression of the kind of complex work going on inside.
Sea-power: Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing extensive sea trials. It will be handed over to the Indian Navy in November by Russia
Sea-power: Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing extensive sea trials. It will be handed over to the Indian Navy in November by Russia
The designers are in the middle of the construction of India's largest ever ship, Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), which when completed around 2018 will be four-and-a-half acres of the country's territory floating in the sea.
Along with the IAC, whose phase II of construction will be launched next week by defence minister A K Antony in Cochin shipyard, designs of a whole range of futuristic frigates and destroyers have also been finalised.
The future belongs to stealth and the Navy's new warships will have distinct "clean" look compared with the usual clutter on the deck of conventional vessels.
The sensors, weapons and radars will all be integrated in such a manner that it avoids detection by enemy's probing devices.
The Navy already has stealth warships like Talwar class and Shivalik class frigates but the concept of deception in warship construction would be taken to new levels in future vessels.
Director General, naval design, Rear Admiral A K Saxena said warship construction in India has come a long way.
The three ships of Shivalik class are the Navy's most modern assets. The Navy's design centre has completed designs for Project 15B, the enhanced version of the three Kolkata class destroyers under construction at Mumbai's Mazgaon Dock Limited (MDL).
The design of Project 17A, an estimated Rs 50,000 crore programme to build seven frigates, has also been completed and final nod is awaited from the defence ministry to launch construction.
in the offing
Cost negotiations have been completed for Project 17A which are follow-on ships of the Shivalik class (Shivalik, Satpura and Sahayadri), sources said.
Out of the seven new ships of the class that are to be constructed, four will be built at MDL and three in Kolkata's Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE).
The two shipyards have been upgraded for the work, said officials.
Work on India's first completely indigenous next generation missile corvette, Project 28A, is already underway and the first boat which is undergoing sea trials is expected to be inducted by the end of this year after much delay.
The Navy will have four of these corvettes - Kamorta, Kadmat, Kiltan and Kavaratti. If shipbuilding plans remain on track, the Navy will operate two brand new aircraft carriers by the end of this decade.
While INS Vikramaditya, undergoing final delivery sea trials in Russia, is expected to be inducted next year, the IAC will be in the force by the end of 2018.
Read more: India builds largest warship to date as Navy develops state of the art stealth technology | Mail Online
The unassuming setting of the Directorate of Naval Design, in Kailash Colony, gives a flawed impression of the kind of complex work going on inside.
Sea-power: Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing extensive sea trials. It will be handed over to the Indian Navy in November by Russia
Sea-power: Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing extensive sea trials. It will be handed over to the Indian Navy in November by Russia
The designers are in the middle of the construction of India's largest ever ship, Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), which when completed around 2018 will be four-and-a-half acres of the country's territory floating in the sea.
Along with the IAC, whose phase II of construction will be launched next week by defence minister A K Antony in Cochin shipyard, designs of a whole range of futuristic frigates and destroyers have also been finalised.
The future belongs to stealth and the Navy's new warships will have distinct "clean" look compared with the usual clutter on the deck of conventional vessels.
The sensors, weapons and radars will all be integrated in such a manner that it avoids detection by enemy's probing devices.
The Navy already has stealth warships like Talwar class and Shivalik class frigates but the concept of deception in warship construction would be taken to new levels in future vessels.
Director General, naval design, Rear Admiral A K Saxena said warship construction in India has come a long way.
The three ships of Shivalik class are the Navy's most modern assets. The Navy's design centre has completed designs for Project 15B, the enhanced version of the three Kolkata class destroyers under construction at Mumbai's Mazgaon Dock Limited (MDL).
The design of Project 17A, an estimated Rs 50,000 crore programme to build seven frigates, has also been completed and final nod is awaited from the defence ministry to launch construction.
in the offing
Cost negotiations have been completed for Project 17A which are follow-on ships of the Shivalik class (Shivalik, Satpura and Sahayadri), sources said.
Out of the seven new ships of the class that are to be constructed, four will be built at MDL and three in Kolkata's Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE).
The two shipyards have been upgraded for the work, said officials.
Work on India's first completely indigenous next generation missile corvette, Project 28A, is already underway and the first boat which is undergoing sea trials is expected to be inducted by the end of this year after much delay.
The Navy will have four of these corvettes - Kamorta, Kadmat, Kiltan and Kavaratti. If shipbuilding plans remain on track, the Navy will operate two brand new aircraft carriers by the end of this decade.
While INS Vikramaditya, undergoing final delivery sea trials in Russia, is expected to be inducted next year, the IAC will be in the force by the end of 2018.
Read more: India builds largest warship to date as Navy develops state of the art stealth technology | Mail Online
