Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd will also integrate AIP on board Kalvari-class submarines. France's Naval Group will integrate electronic heavy-weight torpedoes on board the submarines.
Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi puts the spotlight on Pakistan's ambitious plan to be 50-ship strong in the next decade. Says operational plans are being tweaked with it in mind.
Spanish firm Navantia is looking to base its Asia operations in India, as Indonesia and Vietnam consider buying submarines from the company, it is learnt.
The Air-Independent Propulsion system has a force multiplier effect on the lethality of diesel-electric submarines and can be more silent than a nuclear submarine.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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