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Monday, November 14, 2011

India needs 18 submarines to deal with Pakistan, China

Agosta-90BIndia’s submarine fleet is dying of old age, and new boats are not going to arrive in time as it believes it needs at least 18 non-nuclear subs in service to deal with Pakistan and China.

It’s not like this was a surprise, but the Indian defence procurement bureaucracy has long been noted as slow, sloppy and stubborn, especially in the face of demands that it speed up.

The twisted tale of the tardy submarines is particularly painful. The plan was to have a dozen new subs in service by the end of the decade.

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