Build submarines locally

navy-curtain-raiser-oct-18 — Jayant D Patil, Chairman, FICCI Defence and Aerospace Committee, Rear Admiral CS Rao, NM, DGND (SDG), Vice Admiral GS Pabby, CWP&A, Indian Navy, Dr. A. Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI and Vivek Pandit, Senior Director, Defence and Aerospace, FICCI at the event.

Vice Admiral GS Pabby, AVSM, VSM, Controller of Warship Production & Acquisition, Indian Navy, says this is the right time for India to take a major step towards building submarines indigenously by forging a strategic partnership with the Indian industry.

He urged the leading industry houses to grab the opportunity to strengthen Indian’s Navy and added that there is a plethora of design and development opportunities available to the private sector in manufacturing of Navy equipment for the future.

He mentioned that the six submarines on offer to the private sector for under P75(I) program was yet another opportunity by MoD to integrate the private sector in strategic defence production.

Vice Admiral GS Pabby said that though India entered the sphere of submarines late but it was able to quickly catch up with the complex technology. Today, Indian Navy is designing and developing many of its equipment indigenously.

The Navy has also built need-based operational requirements but is now developing its capabilities and is setting up extensive infrastructure to develop submarines in India.

Speaking on Oct 18, 2016, he mentioned that the Indian Navy took a visionary step in 1986 to establish in-house submarine design capability. fii-news.com

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