Still many countries are interested in Scorpene but MDL production line now going to idle...
According to information published by Bursa on July 15, 2022, the Romanian Minister of Defense, Vasile Dincu, said during an interview that he has signed a
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The problem is we want a bigger submarine with better endurance, stealth features and firepower as in addition of VLS and a proven aip.
With these lots of addition, you would basically need a newly designed submarine.
If you hear Navy, they are more than willing to wait for these bigger subs rather than ordering more scorpenes and shoring up the depleting sub numbers.
Imo, IN should atleast try to make a submarine tech demonstrator based on scorepene learning to atleast prove sub technologies, would greatly boost confidence to further pursue indigenous submarines, and will help in all ssk, SSN and ssbn programmes.