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If it is MDL then France has already won.

All six Scorpenes are to be refitted with indigenous AIP. The designs have already been completed, it is just a matter of execution. The dimensions are the same as one equipped with MESMA AIP.

The silent service is in the same state as squadron numbers. DRDO ran out of time for SSKs. Their developments will not go to waste with the indigenous nuke programme.

It will be extended so they can make room.

Considering how everyone is dropping out I think it is already decided. It will be an extended Scorpene with DRDO AIP.

The RFI requests a design that is in the water. Unless they are willing to accept the actual Barracuda as close enough in design it doesn't meet the RFI.

They offer based on the RFI, I don't remember them asking for a nuclear sub. They have an indigenous programme for that.

You are right... it is a farce one you read the actual RFI.

Possibly, but also keep in mind they could be delaying until the first Barracuda is accepted into service to meet that requirement.

If it doesn't use a pump jet then it wouldn't be the most silent.

The work at MDL on the ordered Scorpenes is almost complete. This tender is in line with keeping that skilled labour force at work. Why order more AIP Scorpenes when they could order more Shortfins with the possibility of LEU reactors? If they intend to delay P75I for a few years they could...

MDL already has the trained workforce so they can get to work much faster and with less delays. If they choose anyone else then all of the learning curves will happen all over again.

Because Dassault is training the workforce in French methods of production. HAL is too set in their ways to be retrained to do something different. They like how they are doing things and will not change.

MDL winning only makes sense if the French option is chosen. They have gone to great lengths to keep their skilled workforce on the payroll. No one else has that competitive advantage. If Adani has never operated a shipyard I can't see what advantage they would have at all.

I don't know what papers you are reading but Australia was under intense US pressure to buy the Japanese submarine but we won based on the stealth features and advanced pump jet propulsion...

Japanese strategy was to leak commercial details of Scorpene to the Australian press, clearly they couldn't win based on the technical deficiencies of their product. The Aussies are not idiots, they buy the superior product which is made by Naval Group, that is also superior to Germany and...

If they were reluctant to sell they wouldn't have placed a bid much less offered economic concessions. It is Abe's foreign policy to become an arms exporter. They lost, we won thanks to our superior technology.

According to Saft's director of operations the roadmap is, 2020 - mass production of third-generation liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries 2022 - generation 3B liquid electrolyte lithium-ion 2024 - solid-state lithium-ion using metallic lithium anode By 2025 Saft and PSA Opel will be...

You can't safely use Li Ion batteries on submarines. It has to be solid state. That is why the Soryu bid lost in Australia. The Shortfin Barracuda will be the first soilid state powered SSK and Naval Group will be offering solid state conversions for all Scorpene submarines using Saft...

AIP is not only expensive, it takes up a bunch of space. If you swap that out for cheaper solid state battery banks to double or even triple storage, the capacity of the batteries gives it endurance closer to nuclear submarines with far greater energy capacity at the ready anytime you need it...