INS Kalvari, first of Scorpene class, tests water: 10 facts

[Rangila]

INS KALVARI - Seen here heading out to Sea - The scorpene class submarines are being built under a technology transfer from French company DCNS

by Saurabh Gupta & Vishnu Som

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Sea trials for the INS Kalavri, the first of six French-designed Scorpene submarines being manufactured in Mumbai, began today. The sub was separated from the pontoon yesterday and set afloat in the Arabian Sea. .

Here is your 10-point cheatsheet on the Kalvari:

1. The diesel-electric submarine weighs 1550 tonnes, is 6.2 meters in diameter and 67 metres long.
2. The six Scorpene submarines are being built by the state-run Mazgaon Docks Limited or MDL in Mumbai in collaboration with DCNS of France in a $3.6 billion (Rs. 20,000 crore approximately) contract signed in October 2005.
3. The Kalvari is likely to be commissioned in September 2016 after a year of sea trials.
4. 30% of the equipment on the Kalvari is made in India. The pressure hull of the submarine has been manufactured by MDL.
5. The sub will carry anti-ship torpedoes and missiles.
6. The other five submarines will be delivered one every nine months.
7. The project has over-shot both time and budget. MDL officials today said they expect to complete the order by 2020.
8. India's Navy currently has 13 ageing diesel-electric submarines, only half of which are operational at any given time due to refits.
9. To replace a nearly 30-year-old fleet hit by a run of accidents, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has ordered an accelerated tendering process to build six conventional diesel-electric submarines at an estimated cost of Rs. 50,000 crore ($8.1 billion), in addition to the Scorpenes.
10. The country's first indigenously built nuclear submarine, INS Arihant joins the fleet late next year.

 

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October 2005........

 

[Suff Shikan]

Points 8,9 and 10 are Irrelevant.

 

[A2Z]

INS KALVARI - Seen here heading out to Sea - The scorpene class submarines are being built under a technology transfer from French company DCNS

by Saurabh Gupta & Vishnu Som

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Sea trials for the INS Kalavri, the first of six French-designed Scorpene submarines being manufactured in Mumbai, began today. The sub was separated from the pontoon yesterday and set afloat in the Arabian Sea. .

Here is your 10-point cheatsheet on the Kalvari:

1. The diesel-electric submarine weighs 1550 tonnes, is 6.2 meters in diameter and 67 metres long.
2. The six Scorpene submarines are being built by the state-run Mazgaon Docks Limited or MDL in Mumbai in collaboration with DCNS of France in a $3.6 billion (Rs. 20,000 crore approximately) contract signed in October 2005.
3. The Kalvari is likely to be commissioned in September 2016 after a year of sea trials.
4. 30% of the equipment on the Kalvari is made in India. The pressure hull of the submarine has been manufactured by MDL.
5. The sub will carry anti-ship torpedoes and missiles.
6. The other five submarines will be delivered one every nine months.
7. The project has over-shot both time and budget. MDL officials today said they expect to complete the order by 2020.
8. India's Navy currently has 13 ageing diesel-electric submarines, only half of which are operational at any given time due to refits.
9. To replace a nearly 30-year-old fleet hit by a run of accidents, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has ordered an accelerated tendering process to build six conventional diesel-electric submarines at an estimated cost of Rs. 50,000 crore ($8.1 billion), in addition to the Scorpenes.
10. The country's first indigenously built nuclear submarine, INS Arihant joins the fleet late next year.

A good news for IN. However the 9 months point seems to be a bit exaggerated since the first on has taken 10 years or in fact more than 10 years to built. Sure the following subs would be built much quicker but 9 months is unrealistic unless IN is ready to compromise on quality.

 

[Nilgiri]

A good news for IN. However the 9 months point seems to be a bit exaggerated since the first on has taken 10 years or in fact more than 10 years to built. Sure the following subs would be built much quicker but 9 months is unrealistic unless IN is ready to compromise on quality.

Have you heard of simultaneous production?

"Next year two submarines will be launched - S51 INS Khanderi was laid down on October, 2011 and S52 (still to be named) was laid down on December, 2012 both will be launched in 2016. And the S53 (still to be named) will be laid down this year in a few weeks in this very same shipyard in which the INS Kalvari was completed."

Source: India's First Scorpène-Class Diesel-Electric Attack Submarine INS Kalvari Rolled Out!

 

[kaykay]

A good news for IN. However the 9 months point seems to be a bit exaggerated since the first on has taken 10 years or in fact more than 10 years to built. Sure the following subs would be built much quicker but 9 months is unrealistic unless IN is ready to compromise on quality.

Production is not like one after one rather simultaneous. Apart from Kalvari( first sub), 3 more are in advance stage of construction while 2nd sub is almost ready to be launched and outfitting. Next year hull of 5th sub will be laid down.

A good news for IN. However the 9 months point seems to be a bit exaggerated since the first on has taken 10 years or in fact more than 10 years to built. Sure the following subs would be built much quicker but 9 months is unrealistic unless IN is ready to compromise on quality.

Production is not like one after one rather simultaneous. Apart from Kalvari( first sub), 3 more are in advance stage of construction while 2nd sub is almost ready to be launched and outfitting. Next year hull of 5th sub will be laid down.