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Saturday, March 01, 2014

Revealed: Delay in changing submarine batteries could have caused INS Sindhuratna tragedy

Kilo class SSKRed tape has crippled the blue water capabilities of the Indian Navy, and the nation is now paying in blood for it.

A shortage of submarine batteries after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) objected to the acquisition process may well be the starting point of the series of unfortunate events that resulted in the INS Sindhuratna mishap early on Wednesday.

Sources say that the batteries on the INS Sindhuratna were not changed during its refit that ended in December 2013.

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