Taiwan launched its new Hai Kun submarine last week. Find out what role it is expected to play in the defence of the island nation against a potential Chinese invasion.
Taiwan’s new Hai Kun submarine
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Russia unveils new Argus underwater drone
| The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle concept can operate in swarms to map the seabed and monitor undersea infrastructure like oil and gas pipelines
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Russia’s Rubin Design Bureau has developed the multi-mission, unmanned submersible for surveys, mapping, search and salvage operations, monitoring and sentry duties, with potentially indefinite endurance capabilities and expandable or customisable payloads depending on mission requirements.
As deep as it gets, unmanned
How Russia sent an unmanned submarine to the Mariana Trench
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Last year, Russia sent its Vityaz unmanned submarine to the deepest depths in the ocean and surveyed the Mariana Trench, at a depth of more than 11 kilometres. This is how the Rubin Design Bureau did it.
Russia offers novel AIP for Indian submarine program
The reformed diesel-based AIP will be cheaper and more efficient, say designers
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Russia is planning to offer its new, reformed diesel-based Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) plant concept onboard the Amur 1650 for the Indian Navy’s Project 75(I) program for six new submarines.
Rubin offers 80% indigenous Amur submarine to India
The Russian design bureau will bid with Larsen & Toubro for the P75(I) program
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United Shipbuilding Corporation design bureau Rubin is offering the Amur 1650 submarine with AIP in partnership with Larsen & Toubro for the Indian Navy’s P75(I) program for six submarines.
Q&A: Navy’s top submariner explains
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StratPost recently had the opportunity to pose some questions to the senior-most submariner in the Indian Navy, Vice Admiral Srikant, Inspector General Nuclear Submarines (IGNS), about the state and future of the submarine arm, on the occasion of its golden jubilee.
Indian Navy should heed San Juan tragedy siren
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Former naval aviator Captain K.P. Sanjeev Kumar examines the San Juan tragedy, pointing out that after half a century of operating submarines, India still does not have organic submarine rescue capability and asks why navies such as ours invest in submarines without closing the loop on submarine rescue.
Indian submarine contest down to four
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Two of the contenders; Mitsubishi/Kawasaki of Japan and Navantia of Spain have failed to submit the requested information for their Soryu and S-80 submarines to the Indian Navy.
Saab to pitch A26 for Indian submarine tender
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Saab Kockums is offering the A26 submarine in response to the Request For Information (RFI) issued by the Indian Navy.
Navy extends submarine RFI deadline
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The Indian Navy has extended the deadline for submission of responses to the Project-75(I) submarine RFI to October 16th.
Navy leads the way on Strategic Partnerships
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The RFIs issued by the Indian Navy for submarines and helicopters have created a model for the implementation of Make in India in defence, which will become the standard for future programs.
The Trouble with Chapter 7
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The insertion of a ‘nationalisation clause’ in the strategic partnerships policy has left defence companies scratching their heads wondering how they can offer cutting edge technologies.
The weird thing about the German-Israeli submarine scam
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This scandal has a line-up of significant curiosities including a series of conflicts of interest and shareholding that will make you go “Hmmm”.
Japan sets up international defense trade agency to boost US-2i India sale
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Japan has set up an agency to manage international defense trade, especially the Indian Navy order for ShinMaywa US-2i amphibious aircraft, after the loss of the Australian submarine order.
Also in Parliament this session
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When Parliament was told that there is no ‘bhaiya‘ system in the army, DefExpo is indeed happening in Goa and there’s no plan to put barcodes on uniforms.
