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Sunday, January 09, 2011

France transferring submarine technology to India

Scorpene-class SubmarineIndia should be able to produce more than one sophisticated submarine every year, thanks to the transfer of high technology from the French leader in naval defence systems.

According to Patrick Boissier, chairman and CEO of DCNS, which is executing India's biggest submarine building programme for six diesel-electric Scorpene submarines, said that India's Mazagon Docks Ltd (MDL) had already 'absorbed the demanding technologies associated with hull fabrication' and that hulls for the first two submarines had been completed.

The delivery of the advanced combat systems for the first submarine would also be complete soon, and it should be launched by 2014.

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