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Friday, August 16, 2013

Are India's aging submarines going the MiG way?

INS SindhurakshakIs India's aging fleet of conventional submarines threatening to go the MiG-21 way?

The Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), already 30 years in the making, was slated to replace the obsolete MiG-21 in the 1990s but is still at least two years away from becoming fully-operational.

Similarly, the Navy too was to induct 12 new diesel-electric submarines by last year, with another dozen to follow in the 2012-2030 timeframe.

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