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The Australian Submarine Landscape: Takeaways for the Indian Navy

Submarines are exceptionally complicated beasts to design, construct and operate. The technological complexities, operational challenges and sustenance demands multiply manifold when SSNs are added into the scenario. In all fairness,…

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Bay of Bengal: The Emerging Undersea Battlefield and the Concomitant ASW Challenges

Bay of Bengal, a 2,600,000 sq km water body, NE of Indian Ocean, is the largest water body called a “bay” in the world. It has seven basin countries, Bangladesh,…

Maps Of Bay Of Bengal –physical And Political

Project 75 (India) and the Australian Submarine Programme

The final choice of platform under project 75(I) should, therefore, be based not only on the quality of the submarine, but also on the extent of TOT and certain other…

Akula Class Submarine

Scorpene Leak: Why the Navy Ought to Perturbed and not Paranoid

The genre of the information leaked, as can be gleaned by the few pages published indicates that the information pertains to the ‘as designed’ capabilities of the platform, as was…

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