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Indian DSRV Buy Near? Navy Wants 2 New DSRV-Handling Diving Support Ships

In new indications that the Indian Navy will possibly expedite its long delayed procurement of one or more deep submergence rescue vehicles (DSRVs), it has now invited information from shipbuilders, both local and global, to support the procurement of two new 3000-ton diving support vessels. The Navy wants both ships built with 400-sqm deck space for a "DSRV and associated gear". The ships will also need a helo deck (without a hangar), suitable accommodation for DSRV kit operators, integral boats, diving bells (for rescues upto 300-m) for 2-3 men with a moon pool and, of course, recompression chambers.

The Indian Navy's attempt to buy two DSRVs was cancelled in 2005 following charges of corruption, though the effort has finally picked up again. The Indian Navy has a submarine rescue agreement with the US Navy (air-deployed DSRV kit in 48 hours), on which it would be wholly dependent if an Indian submarine were ever in distress.
 
Su 33 vs Mig 29K

Which one is a better carrier based fighter ..?

I tried to research it myself ..but the more i dig deep the more im getting into a dilemma as to wich one is better..?

Can somebody help out..?

Dear Sir,

There was an exhaustive reply on this point on another thread; have you seen it? If you still have further queries, please feel free to revert.

Sincerely,
 
Dear Sir,

There was an exhaustive reply on this point on another thread; have you seen it? If you still have further queries, please feel free to revert.

Sincerely,



Do u remember the thread it was disscussed in earlier ...thx
 
Our order book is full for delivery up to 2012′

BY EDITOR AT 19 JULY, 2010, 2:02 AM

BY: The Indian Express Limited.


Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), a mini-ratna company, is a premier defence PSU that has delivered 600 vessels after its takeover by the government in 1977. While supporting the country’s defence needs, GRSE foresees its profitability growing in the coming decade. Beginning its journey in 1884 with a small factory in the eastern banks of the Hooghly, GRSE is now attempting to create a global footprint. Rear Admiral KC Sekhar, chairman and managing director of GRSE, talks to FE’s Indronil Roychowdhury about the company’s prospects and its strategic importance. Excerpts:

What is GRSE’s production plan and how is it linked with the country’s defence programme?

Our plans are to first make timely delivery of orders that are placed with us. Our hands are full and our order book is quite elaborate. We have got orders for four anti-submarine warfare corvette in 2007 and we will deliver the first ship of this category to the Indian Navy in mid-2012. The navy has also placed orders for ten war jet, fast attack craft, six of which we have already delivered and the rest will be delivered by the end of next year.

The Indian Coast Guard has ordered eight inshore patrol vessels in March 2009 and we have aimed to deliver the first two by August 2011.

The ministry of home affairs has placed orders for 88 fast interceptor boats for coastal security in 2008 and we have already delivered 58. We want to deliver the rest before February 2011 because the ministry has an urgency in getting these boats, especially in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.

So, we need to make four-five boats a month for timely delivery and this will be a very impressive production rate. So, our order book is full for delivery up to 2012 and these are all linked with the country’s defence programme. We were not in a position to take any orders after March 2009.

What is the present order book size and when do you think you can start taking orders again?

Our present order book size is worth Rs 8,000 crore, but we have assessed that our future orders might create an order book worth more than Rs 20,000 crore. We are currently negotiating with the Indian Navy for getting an order of three (P17-A) frigates, which is a frontline warship equipped with surface-to-air missile, surface-to-surface missile, super-rapid gun mounting, anti-aircraft guns, torpedo launcher,…

chaff launcher, early warning systems, navigation & fire control radars and underwater sensors. Each of these ships would cost Rs 7,000 crore and we hope to start working on the project from December 2012 if we get the orders with the cabinet committee on security approving it.

We are also hopeful of entering the foreign market for the first time and though I shall not name the country with which I expect to sign a contract for supplying offshore patrol vessels in the next one-two months, this will be a great step forward for the Indian defence industry. We expect to sign another contract with the Indian Navy in two-three months from now and this will be for 800-tonne landing craft utility ships. We will have around 30 ships to make, putting together all these orders and there will be a time span of up to 2020 for delivering these orders. So, we are assured of a full order book up to 2020.

Aren’t you planning any augmentation for faster delivery and taking more orders?

We have taken a modernisation programme of Rs 600 core, which consists of creating a dry dock and an inclined berth with a portable shelter. These are being constructed in the main yard and a 250-tonne Goliath crane is being fitted along with setting up ancilliary shops. More than 45% of this modernisation programme has been completed and we hope it will be finished by the end of 2011. Once this is over, our ship-making capacity will double and we will be able to make four anti-submarine warfare corvette. This augmentation is necessary for implementing the orders we are looking at and will also help us serve overseas markets we are looking at on a priority basis.

But as a defence PSU, we have to be very stringent about timely delivery and take orders according to our capacity. We are pumping in another Rs 40-50 crore in the Rajabagan dockyard, which we have taken over from the Central Inland Water Transport Corporation and we are developing this dockyard to make small ships. But more capacity will entail more production, which, in turn, will require more support from the ancilliaries. This will be an opportunity in a region that is considered to be the backwaters of industrial resurgence.

You said you are expecting orders from overseas markets. Can you elaborate?

There are a lot of inquiries from African countries, SriLanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. A good number of delegations have also visited GRSE in the recent past. If these foreign enquiries fructify, then we may have to go for some more subcontracts. Currently, we implement 20% of our orders via subcontracts.

GRSE has been in profits for the last ten years, specially on the back of defence orders. Don’t you think that a bit more focus in other segments such as portable bridge-making and engineering would have enhanced your turnover and profitability?

Other than ships, we make deck machines, marine pumps and bailey bridges, in which we have a 70% market share. We have a diesel engine plant at Ranchi, where all the engines made by MTU Germany for ship’s operation and power generation are assembled and tested. Now, this diesel engine plant is part of shipbuilding, but the other segments contribute 20% to our turnover. But defence orders are the mainstay of our business and we have to increase our turnover and profitability by bagging higher value defence orders.

Our net profit in 2008-09 was Rs 55 crore, which doubled to Rs 110 core in 2009-10. Last year, GRSE’s turnover was Rs 870 crore and in this fiscal, we expect to cross the Rs 1,000-crore mark. Our bottom line may be at around Rs 150 crore. So, the higher the value of defence orders, the greater our top line and bottom line will be.

Are there any problems in listing defence PSUs like GRSE?

I don’t think there are any problems as such, but there are no instructions from the government as yet on doing the ground work for disinvestment. There are four PSU shipyards in the country—Mazagaon Dock Ltd, Goa Shipyard Ltd, GRSE and Hindusthan Shipyard Ltd—under the defence ministry. The ministry, at present, is not looking for disinvesting in any of them….
 
Raytheon’s APY-10 radar to be on Indian P-8I Maritime Surveillance Aircraft​



Boeing awarded a contract to Raytheon to develop an international version of the APY-10 surveillance radar to be installed on the P-8I Maritime Surveillance Aircraft built for Indian navy. This is the first international contract award for Raytheon’s APY-10 program, extending the company’s considerable presence in the international maritime surveillance market.

“Our APY-10 radar will provide the Indian navy with proven, low-risk technology built on generations of successful Raytheon radar systems,” said Tim Carey, vice president for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems.

The APY-10 radar delivers accurate and actionable information in all weather, day and night, for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare and for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission support.

A member of the industry team that Boeing leads for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A program, Raytheon is also under contract with Boeing to provide six APY-10 systems and spares for the P-8A, of which the P-8I is a variant. Four of the six have been delivered, and Raytheon remains on or ahead of the production schedule.
 
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Russia's defense corporation signs contract on helicopter supplies to India


Russia's state-owned defense corporation Oboronprom and India's Vectra Group have signed a $30 million contract on the supply of four Ka-32 Helix helicopters, the Russian company's CEO Andrei Reus said on Monday.

"I signed a contract with the Indian company Vectra on the supply of four Russian Ka-32 helicopters," Reus said.

"Although this is only four aircraft, it is important that it is actually the opening of the Indian market for Russian helicopters," he said.

The Ka-32 can be employed as a transport aircraft, for ice patrol, fire fighting as well as search and rescue operations.
 

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Boeing has completed the final design review for the Indian Navy 737-based maritime patrol P-8I, a variant of the U.S. Navy’s P-8A, and is preparing to begin fabrication of the first aircraft in the fourth quarter.

The milestone for the Indian Navy, which has ordered eight P-8Is, comes as the U.S. Navy passes the 50 flight hour point on T1, the initial test aircraft, at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. T1 arrived at the Navy facility in April, and is focused primarily on airworthiness and envelope expansion. “The test program is on track, and we have high confidence we will meet our initial operational clearance target of 2013,” says Naval Air Systems Command P-8A principal deputy program manager Martin Ahmad.

T2, the primary mission system test airframe, has amassed 30 flight hours on eight flights since arriving in June. Before the aircraft transited from Boeing’s Seattle manufacturing base it successfully undertook a two-hour anti-submarine warfare (ASW) test flight in conjunction with a Navy P-3 during which it continually tracked a target for two hours. Most recently, T2 completed a communication-navigation system verification test flight.

The third aircraft, T3, will be used for weapons certification work and is due to arrive at Patuxent River in the next two months. Assembly of the first three production-representative airframes, T4, 5 and 6, is also underway with T4 moving through the Renton final assembly site. Fuselages for T5 and 6 are now being assembled at Spirit AeroSystems facility in Wichita, Kansas. Boeing has also conducted more than 110 test conditions on the static test airframe S1, and expects to start the first of two simulated lifetime cyclic tests on the fatigue airframe, S2, early in 2011.

The Navy also continues to define the upgrade roadmap beyond the 2016 increment 2 step, formerly known as Spriral 1. “There are lots of decisions to go, though we’re focusing in on a couple of areas,” says Ahmad. These include net-ready capability and advanced weapons. Milestone A for increment 3 is set for 2012, around the same time as Milestone B for increment 2. This earlier upgrade, now more closely defined, includes enhanced ASW, an automated information system and a high altitude-deployable ASW weapon — a Mk 54 torpedo with wingkits. Deployment from higher
 
^^^^It looks like a sea-monster and it is..... :bounce:

Now India will get the deadliest submarine outside US and Europe....
 
Defence ministry clears Navy's 30k cr destroyer project

NEW DELHI: Slowly but surely, India is building a powerful three-dimensional blue-water Navy to protect its geo-strategic interests stretching from Hormuz Strait to Malacca Strait.

After the recent nod to the over Rs 50,000-crore project for a second line of six submarines, the defence ministry has cleared another major programme to indigenously construct four guided-missile stealth destroyers.

MoD sources say `Project-15B' for the four destroyers, valued around Rs 30,000 crore, has now been sent for final approval to the finance ministry before it's taken up by the Cabinet Committee on Security.

The P-15B programme will be undertaken at Mazagon Docks (MDL) after the three Kolkata-class destroyers, already being constructed there under a long-delayed Rs 11,662-crore project, are finally delivered in 2012-2014.

"Though P-15B is basically a follow-on project of the 6,700-tonne Kolkata-class destroyers, the new destroyers will have greater stealth and advanced sensor and weapon packages,'' said a source.

As first reported by TOI, the over Rs 50,000-crore project to manufacture six submarines with the help of a foreign collaborator was given the green signal last month. These vessels will add to the six French Scorpene submarines being constructed at MDL for over Rs 20,000 crore.

Even as it gears up to also get a dedicated satellite this year, Navy already has as many as 39 warships and submarines on order. With "indigenisation'' being the guiding mantra, 34 of these warships are being constructed in Indian shipyards.

That's not all. In addition to the six new submarines and four destroyers over and above the 39 warships already ordered, the government has also approved the Rs 45,000-crore construction of seven more stealth frigates at MDL in Mumbai and GRSE in Kolkata.

All this shows the government has finally realised the critical need for a strong Navy to protect the country's huge maritime interests and project power in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and beyond, even as India jostles with an expanding Chinese footprint in IOR for strategic space.

The prima donnas of the warships on order are, of course, the 44,570-tonne Admiral Gorshkov from Russia and the 40,000-tonne indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) being built at Cochin Shipyard. With Gorshkov to be inducted by early-2013 and IAC by 2015, India hopes to deploy two potent carrier battle-groups by the middle of this decade.

Moreover, with Navy having also ordered 45 carrier-borne MiG-29K fighters for around $2 billion from Russia, the design work on a much-bigger 65,000-tonne IAC-II is also underway.

Armed with its maritime capability perspective plan 2005-2022, Navy wants to ensure its force-levels do not dip below the existing 130 warships, 65 of which are "major combatants'', with older vessels slated for progressive retirement.
 
I wish it won't get delay , as it is a follow-on project.

and from from 2015 only we can get these sea monster. :)
 
30,000 crore means 7500 crore for each destroyer or, roughly @1.5bil....
Thats too much..I guess we will get really bleeding tech. ships ...
 
I admire Indian Navy for their pro-activeness -- & the right way to go about business --

Airforce and Army -- has lots to learn
 
Like some news article stated a month or two ago that these will be the stealthiest warships in its class.
The barak 2 will also be in these ones. Amazing stuff.
 
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