Navy to get six new submarines

[rajgoynar]

Navy to get six new submarines


With its effective submarine strength coming down drastically to 14, the Indian Navy has started the process to procure six new next generation submarines that will be equipped with Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) to give them longer endurance. The order is expected to be worth over Rs 30,000 crore at current rates. The Navy on Tuesday sent out Request for Information (RFI) to major submarine manufacturers across the world for six conventional submarines that would be built at Indian and foreign shipyards.




Navy to get six new submarines

 

[Abhishek_]

i'll ask my grand kids to look out for these babies

 

[Malik Usman]

What category or type of those Subs.

 

[Indiarox]

What category or type of those Subs.

Diesel-electric subs with air independent propulsion,land attack capability etc.....

 

[Indiarox]

Amur class (Russia),Merlin class (France),U-214 (Germany),S-80 (Spain)
are competing for the orders.

 

[trident2010]

Amur class (Russia),Merlin class (France),U-214 (Germany),S-80 (Spain)
are competing for the orders.

Good for the navy. I personally like U-214. Hope India finalise this .

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

Amur class (Russia),Merlin class (France),U-214 (Germany),S-80 (Spain)
are competing for the orders.

Hoping this is one defense aquisation the GOI does not drag its feet on.....to diversify our sources we should go for the merlin class or the U-214....although the endurance level of the Russian Amur class appear quite impressive....

 

[sudhir007]

Russian Amur class has good chance to win coze reading from past few week Navy want westren & russian technology 2gether. So we get scorpine from france. and 2nd proint is only russian submarine can lanuch brahmos SLCM.

 

[su-47]

i'll ask my grand kids to look out for these babies

No man, tell them to tell their grandkids

And why more diesel electric subs? shouldn't we be going for more nuclear subs now, to be a true blue-water navy?

Bring on the Nerpas!

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

No man, tell them to tell their grandkids

And why more diesel electric subs? shouldn't we be going for more nuclear subs now, to be a true blue-water navy?

Bring on the Nerpas!

dont diesel electric subs have a lot of advantages over SSBNs as far as evading detection and surveillance purposes are concerned ? ........

 

[marcos98]

dont diesel electric subs have a lot of advantages over SSBNs as far as evading detection and surveillance purposes are concerned ? ........

In 1999, the government had sanctioned a 30-Year Submarine Construction Plan, for building 24 conventional submarines in India. Two construction lines were approved: one based on western technology (Mazagon Dock’s ongoing Project 75 to build six Scorpenes); and a second construction line building six submarines with Russian collaboration. After that 12 indigenously designed submarines were to be built.

SSBNs are not a part of the fighting navy; they constitute a country’s nuclear deterrent and fire their nuclear-tipped missiles on orders from the national leadership.

India’s coastal waters are so shallow that SSNs, which typically weigh 4,000-5,000 tonnes, run the risk of scraping the bottom. Conventional submarines, which normally weigh around 1,500 tonnes, are needed for dominating the coastal areas.
source : ajai shukla


i personally think that russian are gonna win this one........
ssbn and ssk are for diffeerent purposes ...........
on the ssbn side we are moving towards 3 arihant class sub and later well have ssn too....
so to make IN a true blue water navy, we are going in the right direction ,notwithstanding the delays with ssk....

 

[su-47]

dont diesel electric subs have a lot of advantages over SSBNs as far as evading detection and surveillance purposes are concerned ? ........

they do, but we already getting Scorpenes plus our Kilo class will remain in service for some more time. So i feel that what we need now are not diesel-electric subs, but modern SSNs that offer more range and endurance.

Besides, Nerpas (AkulaII) are amongst the quietest subs in the world. They can avoid detection, don't worry