02-19-2008, 12:10 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Scorpene-Brahmos twin offer</b>
The Scorpene submarine could be fitted with the underwater version of the Brahmos cruise missiles, to enhance the Indian Navyâs strategic firepower capability, the French Company, Direction des Constructions Navales Services (DCNS) announced on Sunday.
âIf India wants, Brahmos cruise missiles can be fitted on the Scorpene being built under technology transfer at Mazagaon docks,â DCNS project director Xavier Marchal told newspersons at the ongoing Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) sponsored Defence-Expo.DCNS is manufacturing the submarine.
If New Delhi gives the go ahead, it would increase the potential of the Navy, giving it a second option of firing missiles from submarines. The Navyâs recently upgraded Russian Kilo class submarines are armed with shore strike missiles.
DCNS executive vice president and chief operating officer Bernard Planchais also announced that teething problems in effecting technology transfer have been taken care of and the first of the Indian Navyâs six Scorpene submarines will roll out in 2012.
âI have reviewed the progress of the work at the Mazagaon Docks in Mumbai recently, where the submarines are being constructed, and everything is going well. I am confident that we will be able to deliver all the submarines as per schedule,â Planchais said.
He added that the DCNS would be contending for Navyâs subsequent orders for six more submarines.
India proposes to have 24 submarines with a mix of conventional and nuclear, under the 20:20 submarine vision of the Navy. India is to acquire a nuclear submarine on lease from Russia next year, when its own advance technology vehicle would be ready for sea trials.
Asked whether Scorpenes were better than Agosta, the submarines which are being constructed by the DCNS for Pakistan Navy, DCNS project director Xavier Marchal said, âOf course Agostas are inferior than Scorpenesâ.
Marchal said Indian naval shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineering Ltd has awarded DCNS a contract to supply propulsion equipment and auxiliaries, including thrust blocks, for four type P28 anti-submarine warfare corvettes for the Indian Navy.
The contract is led by a partnership comprising DCNS and Indian company Walchandagar Industries Ltd.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Scorpene submarine could be fitted with the underwater version of the Brahmos cruise missiles, to enhance the Indian Navyâs strategic firepower capability, the French Company, Direction des Constructions Navales Services (DCNS) announced on Sunday.
âIf India wants, Brahmos cruise missiles can be fitted on the Scorpene being built under technology transfer at Mazagaon docks,â DCNS project director Xavier Marchal told newspersons at the ongoing Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) sponsored Defence-Expo.DCNS is manufacturing the submarine.
If New Delhi gives the go ahead, it would increase the potential of the Navy, giving it a second option of firing missiles from submarines. The Navyâs recently upgraded Russian Kilo class submarines are armed with shore strike missiles.
DCNS executive vice president and chief operating officer Bernard Planchais also announced that teething problems in effecting technology transfer have been taken care of and the first of the Indian Navyâs six Scorpene submarines will roll out in 2012.
âI have reviewed the progress of the work at the Mazagaon Docks in Mumbai recently, where the submarines are being constructed, and everything is going well. I am confident that we will be able to deliver all the submarines as per schedule,â Planchais said.
He added that the DCNS would be contending for Navyâs subsequent orders for six more submarines.
India proposes to have 24 submarines with a mix of conventional and nuclear, under the 20:20 submarine vision of the Navy. India is to acquire a nuclear submarine on lease from Russia next year, when its own advance technology vehicle would be ready for sea trials.
Asked whether Scorpenes were better than Agosta, the submarines which are being constructed by the DCNS for Pakistan Navy, DCNS project director Xavier Marchal said, âOf course Agostas are inferior than Scorpenesâ.
Marchal said Indian naval shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineering Ltd has awarded DCNS a contract to supply propulsion equipment and auxiliaries, including thrust blocks, for four type P28 anti-submarine warfare corvettes for the Indian Navy.
The contract is led by a partnership comprising DCNS and Indian company Walchandagar Industries Ltd.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->