India is looking for heavy torpedoes for Calvari class naval submarines

The Indian Ministry of Defense sent several foreign manufacturing companies a request for information on the possibility of supplying heavy torpedoes to equip six diesel-electric Kalvari (Skorpen) class submarines of the Indian Navy.

According to Jane's Defense Weekly, interested bidders must submit responses by the end of September. According to the sources of the publication, a confidential request for information was sent in mid-August to the French Naval Group (formerly DCNS), the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and Atlas Elektronik, Rosoboronexport and the Swedish Saab.

According to the request, a number of torpedoes will be imported from the manufacturer, and the rest - produced under license in India.

The selected torpedoes are also likely to come into service with six additional submarines of the "Project 75I" (P-75I), which should be built as part of the strategic partnership for 2025-2027.

The selection and purchase of new torpedoes should be made in a short time, since the head submarine of the series should be put into service in the near future. Behind her at the beginning of 2018, the second NNB, S51 Khanderi (Khanderi), will follow. The remaining four submarines must be transferred at intervals of one year.

In May 2016, the Indian Ministry of Defense annulled the 2010 contract signed in 300 for the supply of 98 torpedoes Black Sharks to the Italian company WASS (Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei) because of a corruption scandal. Recently, the command of the Indian Navy urged the leadership of the Ministry of Defense to continue the purchase of Black Shark torpedoes, but did not succeed. Thus, the Navy is now faced with the prospect of delaying the project on 2-3, reports TSAMTO.

Comments

[Herculesic]

Here's the worst thing - the localization of weapons and ammunition in India Not only is the assembly clumsy, that is, without an ax in any way the creator of this weapon, or ammunition, is also to blame for all their troubles! !!

[just exp]

I read something like the post of one person who was on a business trip to HAL, he was shocked, it seems that Tajiks work on a cheap construction site.

[Don]

Quote: just EXPL

I read something like the post of one person who was on a business trip to HAL, he was shocked, it seems that Tajiks work on a cheap construction site.

In a stranger’s eye we see a speck, in our logs we don’t notice

[APASUS]

Quote: just EXPL

I read something like the post of one person who was on a business trip to HAL, he was shocked, it seems that Tajiks work on a cheap construction site.

I saw how dockers work in port when unloading a ship.
They shot a diesel installation of 64 tons and when the crane lifted it, it just broke down, repair was a week and the whole time it hung. I saw 500-600 more women probably drove into the field, they carried out basins on their heads and dug a hole under foundation for a diesel generator so thousand 5 cubic meters of earth

[RASKAT]

Normally, the boat was built, and the torpedoes, but why the hell are they needed at all? Torpedoes are the lot of white idiots, We will ram if Che. Won Nemo drove the British fleet across the oceans without any torpedoes, but are we worse? Then they thought, not everyone needs them all, let them lie in the boat there are many places, but if that ...... .

[NIKNN]

Quote: RASKAT

Normally, the boat was built, and the torpedoes, but why the hell are they needed at all?

The camouflage is cool ... :)))

[arnar114]

We should not laugh at this fact .... The Hindus abandoned our Varshavyanka in favor of the French Scorpions .... As a result, they will find torpedoes, but they will not buy our equipment and weapons. The Soviet backlog has already ended, but "Lada" is still Mr. ....

[Topotun]

I am not a sailor, but I would still attribute torpedoes with a diameter of 650 mm to the "heavy" torpedoes. This seems to be a standard for modern concepts of 533 mm. The rest - than the child was not amusing .... Suppliers will be found. Wishing to put torpedoes in India, I think enough.

[Herculesic]

They have their own standard - a heavy torpedo, this is the diameter of a baby elephant

[Altona]

The boat looks of course in the first class, hung with canopies with brushes, wreaths and pennants.

[dDYHA]

The question is not clear. Torpedoes are essentially ready for all countries. What does India need? IMHO too picky steel. They want for a penny to get what the ruble is worth. Gypsies one word.

[2534M]

Quote: Donskoy

In a stranger’s eye we see a speck, in our logs we don’t notice

absolutely accurate assessment

just one example - India did not just fire torpedoes (which they love very much), but also comparative tests, for example, our APR-2E with western torpedoes

at the same time, the "valiant" Air Forces of the Navy of the USSR and the Russian Federation generally NEVER ordered a SINGLE retraining kit of the same APR-2, throwing them exclusively in the form of "blanks"

[2534M]

Quote: RASKAT

Normally, the boat was built, and the torpedoes, but why the hell are they needed at all?

there is a brawl between WASS, Thailes and Atlas

[2534M]

Quote: dDYHA

They want for a penny to get what the ruble is worth.

there is quite a normal price tag - about $ 3,5 million per unit - for which Western corporations are now "throats and tear"

[2534M]

Quote: Topotun

to "heavy" torpedoes would still include torpedoes with a diameter of 650 mm

53 are considered heavy torpedoes
"light" - 32