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Saturday, August 30, 2014

French supplier faltering, deadlines breached; Scorpene may take another hit says defence shipyard

Scorpene class SSKThe alarm bells have gone off. After nine long years of waiting, the Indian Navy couldn't have expected a worse time for it to happen.

Suffering from two debilitating underwater losses within a year and tardy acquisition process, its only hope, Project 75 involving the construction of six Scorpene submarines based on transfer of technology from the French firm DCNS, is on the verge of taking a hit, resulting into the fourth straight extension of delivery deadline.

The Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), which is building the boats with DCNS' assistance, has stated that critical spares which were to be supplied by DCNS are yet to materialise despite the deadlines expiring.

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