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Zitat:India Approves Construction of 7 Stealth Frigates, 6 Nuclear Subsnach der Meldung vom 21. Dezember im MARINEFORUM ("Kritische Analysen ...") über die Notwendigkeit eines relativ häufigen Treibstoffwechsels bei den indischen U-Booten war mit einem entsprechenden Bauprogramm durchaus gerechnet worden; und Fregatten und Zerstörer werden von den Indern sowieso in Konkurrenz zu China forciert ....
By Times of India on Friday, February 20th, 2015 ...
Under the over Rs 50,000 crore ‘Project-17A’ for stealth frigates, four will be constructed at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai and three in Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers in Kolkata. “The contract will be inked with MDL and GRSE this month itself, with an initial payment of Rs 4,000 crore,” said a source.
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The complex project for the nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) will take longer. After the CCS approval, technical parameters or naval staff qualitative requirements (NSQRs) will now be drafted for the over 6,000-tonne submarines.
The SSNs are likely to be constructed at the secretive ship-building centre (SBC) in Vizag, where India’s first three SSBNs (nuclear-powered submarines with nuclear ballistic missiles) are being built to complete the country’s nuclear weapons triad.
The government has basically “reworked” the 30-year diesel-electric submarine-building plan, approved by the CCS in 1999, which envisaged induction of 12 new conventional submarines by 2012, followed by another dozen by 2030. But with no new submarine inducted till now, the government has decided to go in for six SSNs and 18 conventional vessels, said sources.
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