Navy’s Submarine strength hit by delays
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  • Reports indicate that Indian Navy’s submarine strength – presently comprising 10 Russian Kilo-class, four German HDW and two Foxtrot – is likely to be reduced to five in 2014-15. The depletion is a result of the delay in induction schedule of new class submarines and obsolescence of some of the existing ones. The Rs. 18,798 P-75 project under six Scorepene-class submarines planned for induction by 2017 is facing delay by at least two years. It successor, the P75-I project, under which six additional submarines are planned for induction at a total cost of nearly Rs. 30,000 crores, has failed to move beyond the planning stage. It is believed that the MoD is unable to decide which shipyard could execute the project.1

    • 1. Rajat Pandit, ‘India's water power hit by delays’, The Times of India, December 23, 2009

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