(Asien) Indische Marine

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DRDO working on cutting submarine vulnerability

S. Anandan

KOCHI: Work is apace at the Defence Research and Development Organisation's Naval Materials Research Laboratory at Ambernath in Maharashtra on developing a land-based prototype plug, and subsequently an engineered, operational version of an Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system that will significantly cut the ‘indiscretion rate' of diesel and electric submarines.
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30 December

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INDIA
The Defence Research and Development Organisation's Naval Materials Research Laboratory at Ambernath (Maharashtra) has begun development of an indigenous Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system for submarines.
(rmks: will be years before achieving anything like an initial operational capability)