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by frothing like a demented dog at the mouth and the power of imagination

And all of them are not worth the pier space they occupy, bleh.

EH what? Diesel subs are best for shallow water, home water operations - not all navies need long ranged submarines to escort expeditionary forces. SSNs are inherently noisier than diesel electrics - not that the noise cannot be addressed but its inherently harder. And dent in outcome of a...

Yeaaap. This shit is cool af. Kolkata launched a Barak 8 from Chennai to intercept a PTA - first demonstration of battlegroup management from a flagship.

You're assuming we dont? CMS is part of our designs from Shivalik class onwards. Remember that a chinese navy chief wanted to visit the CIC of Shivalik in Shanghai and made a big fuss when the Capt told him to GTFO. That CO today is DG, TDAC.

Actually SSKs are more complex than SSBNs SSKs need to be small, stealthy, faster and with greater reaction times than a SSBN, and yet retain decent range and loitering ability. SSNs add another layer of complexity.

yeh IN hai - they push every order to be the best it can be - one of the underlying reasons why IN units are of a global standard - and INDIAN to boot.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/germany-does-not-have-one-working-submarine-23688/page/0/1 https://global.handelsblatt.com/companies/thyssenkrupp-shipbuilding-rapidly-sinking-856111 Here you go^^

The IN is certainly looking for a large 3000 tonne+ submarine. I agree with the article overall. Problem is we are also going to end up buying Shortfin Barracudas simply because tKMs is in severe financial stress. The situation is so bad that the German Navy's own sub fleet is non ops.

Seems like it. And a good thing too. Scorpenes are good subs and 6 more of another class would be just increasing logistical complexity.

Bhai. Have you seen the state of Russian economy? Net external debt: $527 billion as of June last year! The Oil that you talk about does Russia no good since oil prices globally are falling and Western-led sanctions have crippled Russian exports. If they had the money, they wouldn't have gone...

Old news. They always had this on the table simply because they don't have the funds to build some themselves. IN chutiya Nahi hai ! No more russkie maal in India.

I don't expect you to understand why MDL is the best bet to build the 75I subs. Because amateurs like you know nothing of history. Kalvari is not the first ssk to be built in India. That honour goes to INS Shalki which was commissioned back in 1992. Your average ship building crew cannot build a...

Including spares, refits and maintenance contract, lifetime cost of SSNs will escalate to beyond 2 billion USD - which is why they will be built only to serve as escorts to our SSBNs and as a first strike option (LACM)

BS paid hit job of an article. You don't expect the 75I order to be given to novice shipyards with no experience of building anything approaching the level of complexity of a SSK, do you? And what is this nonsense about lack of orders? Both Pipavav and L&T's shipyards are busy with Navy and...

No. Our SSN tech has not matured enough to become efficient sub hunters. Better to have AIP equipped SSKs (which have, for all practical purposes, the same endurance as SSNs). SSKs are inherently more stealthy than SSNs, AIP equipped SSKs, even more so.