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New Delhi:An Indian Navy team is currently in Germany to conduct a field inspection of the Air Independent Propulsion System (AIP), being offered by the country for Indias next big submarine programme Project 75 (India) or P75I ThePrint has learnt...
Sources also said that once this trip was completed, the team would also travel to Spain to check the AIP system of Spanish submarine manufacturer Navantia, the other foreign contender for the Navy deal...
The Navy has insisted on a proven AIP system for the next generation of submarines that is to be built under P75I, a plan formulated 24 years ago in 2000...
A proven AIP is very important for the Navy because the force cannot afford to have the entire programme delayed further, whether this is because of slow development of indigenous systems or by a foreign company claiming they have developed it but not yet proven it..
The Indian submarine programme cannot be a test bed for anyone, a source said.. Because the P75I programmehas been delayed, the Navy has gone in for stop gap arrangement by deciding to go in for three additional Scorpene submarines that were being pushed by the French...
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