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Imagining or Imaging?Something about acoustic daylight imagining and so on. Problem was that it was short range only.
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MUMBAI (PTI): Kalvari, Indian Navy's first indigenous Scorpene-class stealth submarine, on Sunday sailed out of Mumbai Harbour for sea trials even as the plan to purchase heavy-weight torpedos for the vessel remains stuck due to the VVIP chopper scam.
Kalvari is the first of the India's six Scorpene-class submarines being built under the much-delayed Project 75. The vessels are being built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) in collaboration with French company DCNS.
In October 2015, Kalvari had been set afloat. "The sea trials of Kalvari have begun today. It is a proud moment for us," a Navy official said.
However, the plans to acquire heavy-weight torpedos for the submarine is stuck in the Defence Ministry even though the Navy had been pushing for it, citing national security imperatives.
WASS Italy, a Finmeccanica company, had emerged as a successful bidder in the procurement for the torpedos for Project 75 submarines.
Subsequently, because of the group's alleged involvement in the VVIP helicopter case, the procurement was put on hold in July 2014.
Navy Chief Admiral R K Dhowan, while stressing on the importance of getting heavy-weight torpedos, had said that the Defence Ministry will take a final call on it.
India may have to go in for two more Scorpene-class submarines after the first six are delivered to the Navy.
Kalvari is expected to enter service by September end. The remaining five submarines are scheduled to be rolled out every nine months.
The Navy has, at present, 14 operational submarines, including nine Russian-made and four German HDW vessels.
Chakra, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, is on lease with the Indian Navy.
India's first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, Arihant is already undergoing sea trials and is expected to be inducted shortly............See more
MERRIMACK, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected BAE Systems to develop an undersea navigation system aimed at enhancing the U.S. Navy’s ability to provide precise, global positioning throughout the ocean basins. The contract will support a program called the Positioning System for Deep Ocean Navigation (POSYDON), which seeks to allow undersea vehicles to accurately navigate while remaining below the ocean’s surface.
“We’ll use this same technology to revolutionize undersea navigation for the POSYDON program, by selecting and demonstrating acoustic underwater GPS sources and corresponding small-form factor receivers.”
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POSYDON aims to replace current navigational methods that pose a detection risk for undersea vehicles forced to surface periodically to access the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS), which cannot sufficiently penetrate seawater. In addition, access to above-water GPS may be denied by hostile signal jamming. Under DARPA’s POSYDON program, a BAE Systems-led team will create a positioning, navigation, and timing system designed to permit vehicles to remain underwater by using multiple, integrated, long-range acoustic sources at fixed locations around the oceans.
“BAE Systems has more than 40 years of experience developing underwater active and passive acoustic systems,” said Joshua Niedzwiecki, director of Sensor Processing and Exploitation at BAE Systems. “We’ll use this same technology to revolutionize undersea navigation for the POSYDON program, by selecting and demonstrating acoustic underwater GPS sources and corresponding small-form factor receivers.”
The vehicle instrumentation needed to capture and process acoustic signals for accurate navigation will also be developed under this program. The company will leverage its expertise and capabilities in signal processing, acoustic communications, interference cancellation, and anti-jam/anti-spoof technologies for the program. Other members of BAE Systems’ POSYDON team are the University of Washington, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin. ...........See more
A NEW FLEET OF HUNTER-KILLER SUBMARINES: THE ASTUTE CLASS
Each of the new submarines will cost around £1bn to make.
They have space for 38 weapons to stowed - including Spearfish heavy torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Each will measure 97m (318 ft) in length and weigh 7,400 tonnes.
Almost 40,000 acoustic tiles are placed on the Astute class submarines to mask their noise as they move through water, and make the ships virtually undetectable by enemies.
The Astute Class is being built by BAE Systems and were ordered 15 years ago.
Similarly to the Vanguard class, the ships have space for each member of the crew to have their own bunk.
The ships are fitted with a dry-deck so special forces can deploy while they are submerged.
They can circumnavigate the world without ever surfacing.
Each will have a sonar system so powerful it can detect ships leaving harbour in New York City from a listening point below the waters of the English Channel, 3,000 nautical miles away.
HMS Ambush is the second of the Astute class submarines to be launched but defects have been identified.
Second boat of this class HMS Ambush has yet to launch after 57 operational defects were found.
Might depend on time table, plus the strategic consideration of wnating to maintain the capability to design and build nuclear submarines domestically. (technology base)Was just wondering. UK and US both operate same SLBMs and both have a daunting task of replacing their SSBN fleets.
Won't it be economical and easier for both US and UK to join hands in building a common platform ?
Or there is an international law stopping it ?
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LONDON — One of the Royal Navy’s newest nuclear submarines has collided with a merchant vessel off the coast of Gibraltar.
The collision took place while HMS Ambush was submerged during a training exercise July 20, the Royal Navy said in a statement.
The accident resulted in damage to the front of nuclear attack submarine’s conning tower after what the sea service described as a “glancing collision” with a merchant vessel.
The Royal Navy said that there was no damage to the boat's nuclear power plant. The merchant ship showed no signs of damage.
The Astute-class submarine, which has the motto "Hide and Seek," has entered the dockyard at the British overseas territory for further checks.
Ambush was commissioned in 2013 at a cost of around £1.1 billion, or US $1.45 billion. It’s the second of what will eventually be seven Astute-class submarines being built for the Royal Navy by BAE Systems.
The third boat, HMS Artful, entered service earlier this year...................See more