Indian Navy goes hunting for heavyweight torpedoes for submarines, approaches global companies

[ashok321]

The Indian Navy has approached a select few global manufacturers to buy heavyweight torpedoes for submarines. Heavyweight torpedoes are critical for submarines and the Indian Navy has an acute shortage of these torpedoes.

India will be getting its Kalvari Class submarines - conventional diesel- electric boats made by DCNS of France - soon after a gap of three decades. These submarines, however, won't have any heavyweight torpedoes. Without the heavyweight torpedoes, the new submarines will be almost "toothless." The next of the Kalvari Class - INS Khanderi - is expected to join the Indian Navy by end 2017.

This May, India cancelled its previous contract to buy 98 Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes at an estimated cost of $200 million. The manufactures of the torpedo - Whitehead Alenia Systemi Subacquei (WASS) - is a subsidiary of Italian arms manufacturer Finmeccanica. The Italian arms manufacturing giant was blacklisted after it was alleged that another subsidiary of the company - AgustaWestland - had paid bribes to secure a contract to sell 12 medium lift helicopters to India.

Sources told India Today, that the select foreign manufacturers will have to choose their Indian partners and that torpedoes will be manufactured using the Strategic-Partnership (SP) route.

The Modi-led NDA government is keen to reduce India's dependence on foreign equipment manufactures. It has opened up defence manufacturing to Indian private sector.
The SP route envisages that the Indian private companies will tie-up foreign manufactures to get technology and in return the government will assure orders and allow exports as well.
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[ashok321]

Sources told India Today, that the select foreign manufacturers will have to choose their Indian partners and that torpedoes will be manufactured using the Strategic-Partnership (SP) route.

Which country is going to build a plant in India to manufacture just 98 torpedoes and share their technology?

 

[war&peace]

It has to be a very large number in addition to the willingness of the country to provide its advanced technology. Normally countries are okay with providing the technologies that are about to become meaningless for them. Clues can be taken from USA's refusal to provide key technologies used in F-16 (a fourth gen A/C)

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Clues can be taken from USA's refusal to provide key technologies used in F-16 (a fourth gen A/C)

“Any media reports claiming the US has denied or approved the transfer of F-16 technology to India are simply not true,” Lockheed says.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/a...-report-on-f-16-tech-transfer-to-indi-440209/
Try harder next time.

 

[neem456]

Which country is going to build a plant in India to manufacture just 98 torpedoes and share their technology?

No where it mentioned new order is supposed to be of 98.
It just mentioned old contract which was cancelled was of 98.

 

[Jinn Baba]

Second largest country in the world that can't produce anything worthwhile for its armed forces

Now look at the top 15 largest economies of the world and show me a single other country that is so incompetent.

A future world power that can't even produce barbed wire and has to import the same

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Second largest country in the world that can't produce anything worthwhile for its armed forces

Now look at the top 15 largest economies of the world and show me a single other country that is so incompetent.

 

[Jinn Baba]

Yes! Please keep it up, import some more barbed wire - it really makes us jealous

 

[assassin123]

Second largest country in the world that can't produce anything worthwhile for its armed forces

Now look at the top 15 largest economies of the world and show me a single other country that is so incompetent.

A future world power that can't even produce barbed wire and has to import the same

Look who is lecturing us about incompetency and making things on their own.
As for the torpedoes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varunastra_(torpedo)
The new torpedoes are ordered to supplement them. They are currently arming them.

 

[war&peace]

India is like the teen age girl who tries to cook, spoils it and then orders the same food from a restaurant

 

[AyanRay]

Second largest country in the world that can't produce anything worthwhile for its armed forces

Now look at the top 15 largest economies of the world and show me a single other country that is so incompetent.

A future world power that can't even produce barbed wire and has to import the same

Pakistan is the 7th largest country, unable to make even a moped engine. India is building its own aircraft carrier, it builds its own destroyers, frigates, helicopters. It has built nuclear submarines, Spy satellites, AESA/PESA radars, Surface to air missiles, ABMs, Surface to surface missiles, SLBMs etc etc etc.

India is like the teen age girl who tries to cook, spoils it and then orders the same food from a restaurant

Still better that begging or asking for soft loans to buy food.

 

[danger007]

Looks like pakiistan friends are started their ranting for daily bread ..

 

[Kinetic]

Second largest country in the world that can't produce anything worthwhile for its armed forces

Now look at the top 15 largest economies of the world and show me a single other country that is so incompetent.

A future world power that can't even produce barbed wire and has to import the same

Do you ever designed an assault rifle or a motor cycle? No. You are still living in middle age dude.

 

[Jinn Baba]

Look who is lecturing us about incompetency and making things on their own.
As for the torpedoes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varunastra_(torpedo)
The new torpedoes are ordered to supplement them. They are currently arming them.

I'm British! We are wayyyyy ahead of you.

I'm also Pakistani - a country 1/7 the size of mighty India yet your own VCOAS says that we too are ahead of you in military production and exports.

Now, answer my comment - which other top 15 economy of the world is as incompetent as India when it comes to defence production for its armed forces?

Pakistan is the 7th largest country, unable to make even a moped engine. India is building its own aircraft carrier, it builds its own destroyers, frigates, helicopters. It has built nuclear submarines, Spy satellites, AESA/PESA radars, Surface to air missiles, ABMs, Surface to surface missiles, SLBMs etc etc etc.

Says the world's largest importer of defence products. Keep fantasizing

Do you ever designed an assault rifle or a motor cycle? No. You are still living in middle age dude.

Nope I have not designed either. I heard that a state owned arms manufacturer tried to design an assault rifle in India but even after many years effort it was rejected by the indian army.

But don't worry, you can import that too! And if you need bullets you can buy some from Bangladesh

 

[war&peace]

Still better that begging or asking for soft loans to buy food.

India is the undisputed beggar in the whole South Asia due to the largest loan in SA and with the largest number of poor people in the whole world.
So you are the crowned slum-dogs who have no access to the toilets and other basic amenities.