L&T Developing Bond-Style Mini-Sub For Navy

[Jagdish58]

Indian private firm Larsen & Toubro indicates it is designing and building a swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV). This poster was up at the L&T stand at DefExpo. Under development by L&T Heavy Engineering, this image depicts it as a dry type delivery vehicle for up to four marine commandos.

Executives I spoke to at the stand said it was being developed and built in-house and would be offered to the Indian Navy once it was complete (like the Adamya AUV).

Separately, it is known that in 2012, the Indian MoD approved a navy requirement of four special operational vessels (SOVs) for the MARCOS, apparently to be built at the Hindustan Shipyard Ltd in Visakhapatnam. It is not clear if L&T is involved with that classified programme.
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Livefist: L&T Developing Bond-Style Mini-Sub For Navy?

 

[Eastman]

I wonder if the government DRDO participated in the development or naught

 

[sayareakd]

I thinks L&T should be submarine specialist. That should be their mai work for Indian navy.They are making nuke sub hull, mini sub and now this special operations sub.

 

[laughingbuddha]

I thinks L&T should be submarine specialist. That should be their mai work for Indian navy.They are making nuke sub hull, mini sub and now this special operations sub.

I agree. The IN should commission L&T for dedicated submarine development and construction. Being professional, their delivery time will be much faster. They should also invest in R&D on torpedoes.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The Italians had this type of operation well-defined in WWII.

COMSUBIN (Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei; Teseo Tesei Diver and Raider Command Group) is the elite combat frogman force and one of the Italian special forces.

Italy was the first nation to use frogmen and human torpedoes. The Italian Naval Assault Divisions are considered to be the precursors to modern Naval Special Forces. Their record can be traced back to World War I and the operation against the Austrian-Hungarian Battleship Viribus Unitis in Pula Harbour in 1918. Other famous operations are Trieste, Suda Bay, Alexandria, Gibraltar, and Malta. Great Britain and Germany soon followed. Italy's frogman group originated in 1938 as the 1a Flottiglia Mezzi d'Assalto (1st Flotilla Assault Vehicles), which was reformed in 1940 as the Decima Flottiglia MAS (10th Flotilla Assault Vehicles, X MAS).

Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Marina Militare

Document sans-titre

COMSUBIN - nageurs combat italiens

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Human torpedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kunal Biswas]

IN already operate such vessels but these are imported ..

Gud to see such vessels are now made in India ..

 

[Kunal Biswas]

WWII - German and Italian Sneak Craft - US Navy documentary


Very detailed, And all other in the list ..

The Italians had this type of operation well-defined in WWII.

Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marina Militare

Document sans-titre

COMSUBIN - nageurs combat italiens

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Double post ..

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

project 75I should be contracted with l and t