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After three years of operation, Arihant reactor would be matured. Isnt it? And maybe BARC able to bring the output of 100-110 MW from some minor changes in Arihant reactor design.Not at the moment, the U216 and the recenct Barracuda class concept are larger and newly designed subs, which will include both capabilities.
Not necessarily. The Make in India policy is aimed on foreign vendors teaming up with Indian counterparts, which means L&T teams up with a certain vendor and only if their sub wins, L&T will be the Indian manufacturer.
All the rumors about vessels with nuclear propulsions are not worth anything yet, since even Arihant is in prototype and testing stage yet. Until that propulsion and the systems are proven, we won't use it in other applications. Besides that, SSNs will have their own rols and would not reduce the need of SSKs, so even if we would go for SSNs based on Scorpene, it would be done in a combined deal with more Scorpene SSKs.
IF they are meant to produce additional Scorpenes yes, because no matter how good they are, they have to absorb the technology first to build it, which takes time. Mazogon already has absorbed it and would need less time to build additional once.
From that it may be possible Scorpene hull can be used in creating new SSN class for IN.