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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Scorpene v/s. Agosta: Silent killers of the deep

To meet India's stated objective of being recognised as a 21st century superpower, the country must have a blue-water navy, an integral part of which is a modern submarine fleet.

Sourya Biswas profiles the Indian Navy's latest acquisition the Scorpene vis-à-vis the pride of Pakistan Navy's Agosta 90B.

Some of us may remember the fable of the two kingfishers fighting over a fish and asking a cat to make an equal division, whereupon the cat gave one kingfisher the head of the fish and the other the tail, and kept the fleshy body as his fee.

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