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Ten months after it sank, Indian Naval Submarine (INS) Sindhurakshak was finally salvaged and brought to surface on Thursday. The entire operation lasted four months, after the Indian Navy awarded the contract to salvage the submarine to a private company on January 31.
In what is considered to be Indian Navy's biggest disaster, on August 14, 2013, an accident on board Sindhurakshak resulted in the vessel exploding and sinking to the bottom of the sea. It also resulted in 18 naval officers losing their lives and several others getting injured.
The navy had signed a contract with Resolve Salvage and Fire (Indian) Private Limited.
A defence source said, "The submarine was finally brought to the surface after four months of efforts by the salvage company. The vessel will be first put on a pontoon. It appears that the company will take two more weeks to bring the submarine on dry dock."
"Once the submarine is brought to the dry dock, the salvaging company will hand it over to the naval dockyard. After this, experts and forensic officials will examine it to see if it can be repaired," the source added.
Another source said, "Chances of repairing Sindhurakshak appear very bleak because it was lying on the seabed for almost 10 months. Most of the body would have been damaged due to erosion. Another reason is that a majority of its parts and body would also have been damaged due to the heavy explosions that took place that day."
The cost of the operation sanctioned by the navy was around Rs200 crore. The Western Naval Command had constituted an empowered committee headed by a vice admiral rank officer to conclude the contract. Commodore rank officers were in the committee and the captain was given the charge of bringing the contract file to the authority concerned for the process.
Seven companies, including a few Indians firms, which specialise in salvage operations, had come forward for the work.

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The sub is still intact, wonder if it can repaired :what:
 
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The sub is still intact, wonder if it can repaired :what:

Not sure ...These pictures are likely for representational purpose only .

Submarine is unlikely to be intact .

whether it can be repaired is a million dollar question ...

IN spent almost 240 crores to bring submarine out ...but whether the submarine can be salvaged is a question to which perhaps IN also have no answer at this point of time ....
 
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The sub is still intact, wonder if it can repaired :what:
IN is going to check the possiblilty of the reuse but experets belelive it is going to be write-off
 
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IN is going to check the possiblilty of the reuse but experets belelive it is going to be write-off
If it is repaired, it will again have maintenance problems. It is better to scrap and look for newer platforms
 
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If it is repaired, it will again have maintenance problems. It is better to scrap and look for newer platforms
Its not decided like that. It depends on cost benefit ratio and life of the platform.
 
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we can't possibly decide whether this ship can be repaired or not,nor the so called "Experts".we've seen worst cases where these equipment got repaired and was put into service.

one example...

Soviet submarine K-19 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nuclear Radiation,Fire,Collision etc,but even remained in service.

There can be no parallel between INS Sindhurakshak and K-19 submarine accidents .

K-19 did not suffer ignominy of issue of structural disintegration due to massive explosions unlike INS Sindhurakshak .

Hull of INS Sindhurakshak has been virtually destroyed by explosion of torpedoes ....it is unlikely to be amenable for repairs if we have to believe reports .
 
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Even IF it was fixable (big if) it wouldn't make much sense to do so- the Scorpenes (the replacement for the Kilos) are to start entering service within 24 months and the kind of damage done to the Sindhurakshak would take 3-4 years to fix, by the time she is ready for sea trails she will need to be retired anyway. This is the end for her I'm sure....
 
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Even IF it was fixable (big if) it wouldn't make much sense to do so- the Scorpenes (the replacement for the Kilos) are to start entering service within 24 months and the kind of damage done to the Sindhurakshak would take 3-4 years to fix, by the time she is ready for sea trails she will need to be retired anyway. This is the end for her I'm sure....
Even I want kilos to retire but there is a upgrade programe going on so Upgraded kilos will be with IN till the end of the decade. M I wrong ???
 
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Even I want kilos to retire but there is a upgrade programe going on so Upgraded kilos will be with IN till the end of the decade. M I wrong ???
The last Kilo will be around until early 2020 because the last Scorpene is set to be in operational service by Mid-2020.
 
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