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Thursday, July 19, 2012

First Scorpene submarine to roll out in 2015

Scorpene class submarineFrench defence shipbuilder DCNS and SEC Industries inaugurated a dedicated facility in Hyderabad for making key components for the six Scorpene submarines being built for the Indian Navy.

Union minister of state for defence MM Pallam Raju said India was re-building its lost skill sets for submarine building with French technology.

This would be the next step of indigenisation of submarine project after HDW Germany submarine contract was dumped in 1980.

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