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Milestone for Scorpene submarine construction | Scorpene project | | The New Indian Express
The construction of six submarines under the Scorpene project, marred by constant delays and time overruns, has achieved a milestone with the Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Ltd (MDL) successfully integrating the weapons of the system with the main structure of the underwater vessel.
Under the Rs18,798 crore contract with French firm DCNS, the MDL will be constructing six submarines under licence for the Indian Navy.
At the end of the last month, we successfully integrated the torpedo launchers with the submarines main structure. It is an achievement for us, as we have not done such a construction so far within the country, said MDLs chairman and managing director Vice Admiral (retd) HS Malhi here. It is an achievement for the shipyard. This integration takes nearly a couple of weeks, but with our precision work we could do it in two days, Malhi added.
The integration has been done in the first submarine and the second would follow suit soon. Earlier, the first of the six submarines was scheduled to be delivered by December next year and thereafter, one every year till December 2017.
But following a slew of issues like problems in absorption of complex technology, augmentation of MDL infrastructure and procurement of material, the delivery date of the first submarine was pushed back to the second half of the 2015.
The construction work on all the six submarines has begun and the first of them will be delivered by August 2015 and the last one in 2018.
That effectively makes it a delay of about a year, Malhi added. Scorpene submarine in 2015 would be the first submarine to have been inducted in the fleet of the Indian Navy after two decades. MDL, a public sector shipyard, has been undertaking a massive expansion of its infrastructure to compress the delivery schedule of the diesel-electric submarines.
A second workshop is under construction and would be ready by 2013 which would expedite the construction of the submarines.
From the fourth submarine onwards, this second line of construction will be functional and construction can takes place concurrently in two yards.
The project is pivotal for the Indian Navy which is facing dwindling numbers of its submarine. At present, the force, seeking to increase its influence beyond the Borders, has only 14 conventional submarines, with only two-third of it are operational at a given time.
By the time the Navy gets its first Scorpene submarine in 2015, only 10 of these will be functional.
The construction of six submarines under the Scorpene project, marred by constant delays and time overruns, has achieved a milestone with the Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Ltd (MDL) successfully integrating the weapons of the system with the main structure of the underwater vessel.
Under the Rs18,798 crore contract with French firm DCNS, the MDL will be constructing six submarines under licence for the Indian Navy.
At the end of the last month, we successfully integrated the torpedo launchers with the submarines main structure. It is an achievement for us, as we have not done such a construction so far within the country, said MDLs chairman and managing director Vice Admiral (retd) HS Malhi here. It is an achievement for the shipyard. This integration takes nearly a couple of weeks, but with our precision work we could do it in two days, Malhi added.
The integration has been done in the first submarine and the second would follow suit soon. Earlier, the first of the six submarines was scheduled to be delivered by December next year and thereafter, one every year till December 2017.
But following a slew of issues like problems in absorption of complex technology, augmentation of MDL infrastructure and procurement of material, the delivery date of the first submarine was pushed back to the second half of the 2015.
The construction work on all the six submarines has begun and the first of them will be delivered by August 2015 and the last one in 2018.
That effectively makes it a delay of about a year, Malhi added. Scorpene submarine in 2015 would be the first submarine to have been inducted in the fleet of the Indian Navy after two decades. MDL, a public sector shipyard, has been undertaking a massive expansion of its infrastructure to compress the delivery schedule of the diesel-electric submarines.
A second workshop is under construction and would be ready by 2013 which would expedite the construction of the submarines.
From the fourth submarine onwards, this second line of construction will be functional and construction can takes place concurrently in two yards.
The project is pivotal for the Indian Navy which is facing dwindling numbers of its submarine. At present, the force, seeking to increase its influence beyond the Borders, has only 14 conventional submarines, with only two-third of it are operational at a given time.
By the time the Navy gets its first Scorpene submarine in 2015, only 10 of these will be functional.
Only one year delay for the project to complete,,,, much expected
