So in short that was, YOU SCRATCH MY BACK AND I SCRATCH YOUR BACK....
I don't think we can sell scorpene subs without french approval.
If that is the rate of our production then we need to build more shipyards for submarines. We need to have around 40 attack subs total by 2030 considering the rate of Chinese production and additional subs coming to pakistan.
There is no order of 40 subs...
3 submarines have been launched - Kalvari, Khanderi, Karanj. Other 3 are in constructions at various stages.What are you saying about 2025? By 2021 all the 6 submarines would have been delivered and before 2020 itself an assembly line will get empty and will have to get new orders to maintain skilled workers. So, the next 6 submarines will also be completed by 2025 if the pace of construction is increased a little.
The options clause is 6+6. MDL has been selected as the shipyard for P75I... take a guess what it is.
I meant 40 including the ones we already have.
When was the last time any dpsu kept it's promise.
Second strike through SLBM is kind of having insurance. Most think that money spent on Insurance is useless, only few understand what's it for.
I think we need some kind of approval before we make such changes. Maybe we've already got that approval kind of thing.
If everything is destroyed, you are already dead. There is no point in insurance after you are dead. Next, the number of missiles are already in tens of thousands and they will not be all destroyed. Insurance is needed when the number of missiles are in few hundred or less. Having large number of missiles is already an insurance in itself. Also, how will you communicate with a SSBN underwater in far off oceans if everything is destroyed?
The whole point of scorpene itself was indigenous capability development. Also, there is no need for approval for a new design from France. India can't make the same design due to IPR but can change it and then it becomes Indian design. Technology is what matters while design is easily changed
Be carefull !
Yes, they made it too heavy and it could not rise and then increased its size beyond that of its pen! That was quite sillyBe carefull !
things apparently easy are not in fact.
See Spain S80.... an indigenous derivative of Scorpene.... a big mistake.
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Why can't India simply hide the missile in lakes and oceans in pontoons instead of having submarines?
Because it gives flexibility of launch.
How do you communicate with a submerged submarine?
Low frequency radio and most of the time one primitive technology which is still in use from WW1.
SSBN is just a tool for long distance BM launch. It is impossible to destroy the missile silos and TEL as tehy are present in thousands across India, even in Lakshadweep, A&N etc. The measly 12-16 BM on submarines can carry utmost 100 BM even with 6-8 submarines which is nothing compared to what can be carried on land. Also, first strike can't be done on all targets. India will detect the mobilisation, build ups and also radars will detect the missile at launch. The massive booster phase where the missile rises up is a clear indication of missile being fired. It can't be hidden as such massive fireball and heat generated will be easy to detect.
That was a good question actually. How will you use Low frequency in oceans? The water is known to absord the waves quickly. More than the point I am trying to make about submarines BM being useless due to lack of need, the communication question is a bigger one.
They make use of VLF for receiving purpose. For transmitting they come upto periscope depth and then communicate with normal frequency radio by raising the antenna mast above water.
100s of metres under water. But, if the submarine is say, near Taiwan, how will India communicate?
