India needs more submarines than 24 currently planned: Defence Ministery
NEW DELHI: Calling for a rethink of its submarine building programme, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said India should look for greater numbers than the existing plan of constructing 24 such vessels. Referring to the existing 30-year submarine building plan that envisages construction of 24 submarines, including both nuclear and conventional, Parrikar said India needed a longer term plan till 2050. The existing plan ends in 2030. He also said that the strategic partnership model is in the last stage and once brought ou…
US working on giving India access to defence technology: US Deputy Secretary of Defence.
The United States is working on giving India the same status as some of its "very closest allies" in the area of technology and export controls by getting the bureaucratic hurdles out of the way, says a top Pentagon official. As part of its efforts to take the India-US defence relationship to the next level and help New Delhi raise the indigenisation of its of its defence systems, the Pentagon has initiated several India-specific steps, details of which have not been revealed so far. Deputy Secretary of Defence Ashton B Ca…
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