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Sunday, April 06, 2014

No One to Spare a Thought for Naval Warship Upgrades

INS RajputIndia’s major warships are facing a shortage of spare parts for their normal, medium and short refit programmes, which might explain the regular accidents, including equipment failures that have happened in recent times.

For all warships, particularly those of Russian origin, only 50 per cent spares are available with the Mumbai and Visakhapatnam naval dockyards for refits. These are much below the demand for spares and have resulted in delays in the refit programmes or in low satisfaction levels after the refits.

These refits are usually midlife upgrades of the warships, required to make these modern fighting machines last longer than their envisaged service life that could extend from 20 to 30 years.

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