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Monday, July 20, 2009

India sees delay in French submarine delivery

Scorpene class submarineIndian Defence Minister A.K. Antony told parliament Monday that he expected a delay in the scheduled delivery of six Franco-Spanish Scorpene submarines for the Indian navy.

Antony's statement came as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh readied to flag off sea trials of India's first nuclear-powered submarine off Vishakapatnam port in southern Andhra Pradesh state.

Antony, replying to questions, blamed the expected delay on "problems in the absorption of technology" by a domestic shipyard assembling the attack submarines in western India.

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1 comment:

  1. Tejaswy20/7/09 18:03

    For a change it was not the political bureaucracies fault

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