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http://www.delhidefencereview.com/2017/12/14/ins-kalvaris-commissioning-marks-the-revival-of-diesel-electric-submarine-construction-in-india/ Must read by Saurav Jha . Very detailed info.

Sure I know about Varunastra. That is okay if India develops its own torpedoes, nothing wrong with it. But until it is ready, INS Kalvari, the deadliest submarine in your inventory after INS Chakra, is not able to deploy its full combat capacity. I don’t share your optimism with regards to...

The Indian Navy has submarines but not enough torpedoes. The German Navy has torpedoes but no submarines ! https://warisboring.com/every-german-submarine-is-out-of-action/

Armand’s reply explains it. The Argies went to war with 5 Exocets. Looking at the damage they did with two missiles ... Well, Varunastra is a DRDO project, right ? Let’s hope for you they can deliver a modified Varunastra faster than their phosphoric acid fuel cell-powered AIP modules .

Sigh this sounds really terrible 114 weeks +2-3 years wait ? What if a new, bigger Kargill war happens in next two years and Pakistan Agosta subs manage to escape Poseidons’ watch ? INS Kalvari might be at risk if it meets an ennemy submarine without fully reliable torpedoes. This is totally...

Thanks for sharing . If such a restructuration of european naval industry is possible, that implies splitting DCNS activities in two : the subs division and the surface ships division. France and Italy did a very good job together with the Horizon and the FREMM. Now is the subs division of DCNS...

Massive display of firepower in one pic ! Congratulations India. A deal for torpedoes is probably being under discussion with France or Germany as we speak. I suspect Germans will get the deal : not wise to put all eggs in same basket ;)...

INS Kalvari will get Brahmos too !? The Scorpene will also have the Exocet (French for ‘flying fish’) SM39 that can be launched from its six 533 mm torpedo launchers. Built by European missile-maker MBDA, the high subsonic 4.7 m long, 350 mm-diameter, 655 kg AShM has a range of 50 km, can...

Did you get any Exocet yet for practising ?

Reading about australian subs deal and found about " Magtronic " system from Jeumont Electric . It is on all Scorpene since 1999. Sounding pretty cool ! http://www.jeumontelectric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/JE-Marine.pdf

Apparently the Brazilian Scorpene subs will feature the F21 ... but this program is running in trouble with budgetary problems . Very cool vid on Youtube from DCNS : https://www.youtube.com/embed/YbeQmfXE0ws

Oops, I am lagging ! Great minds think alike , they say.

Any chance that the INS Kalvari combat system can accomodate the F21 Heavyweight Torpedo if the deal with Finmeccanica gets stuck in limbo ? The two torpedoes seem very similar. http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/158431/dcns-to-deliver-first-f21-torpedoes-in-2016.html...

Beautiful red shark ! Delivery to IN scheduled in september 2016 according a french site. New Finmeccanica Black Shark torpedoes too ??

Having a hard time figuring out why the first Indian Scorpene do not come with AIP .. retrofitting them seems possible but very costly I guess. I am hearing a lot that the french system is inferior to swedish and german AIP .. maybe so but better an inferior AIP than no AIP at all. It was quite...