Decommissioning of INS Sindhudhwaj

INS Sindhudhwaj was in service of India since last 35 years.                                                                          Is India facing submarines shortage?

What is a submarine?                                                                                                                                   - A ship that can travel under the water.                                                                                                        - A ship capable of independent operation under the water.

It started gaining attention in 19th century, but the major usage of submarine was started world war I.

And the purpose of its usage was to have an eye of enemy surface, aircraft carrier protection, nuclear deterrence, collection of intelligence and data and to convert insertion of special forces

INS Sindhudhwaj was aquired from soviet union in 1987 when along with that we also had 10 kilogram class diesel electric submarine.

Kilo class submarines are very special in nature. The majority life of kilo class submarine is just 30 years because of the retrofitting we can increase the life upto 10 years.

Three Indian kilo class submarines got retrofitting recently in russia. The repair of any submarine depends on two things the strength of the hull and the state of repair. If these two priorites are checked we can give our submarine for retrofitting.

The biggest speciality of kilo class submarine is, it is able to remail silent thats why is too good for intelligence connection.

The engine plant is placed away from the hull and beacuse of the rubber like coating done on engine it makes sound to be reduced. It aslo has land attack capability.

The current status is

We have sixteen submarines in service One is nuclear powered.

seven kilo class submarines. 

four shishumar class submarines of German origin named as- INS Shishumar, Shankush, Shalki and Shankul.

Four Kalvari class or Scorpene class of French origin named as - INS Kalvari, Khanderi, Karanj, Vela.

Two more scorpene class submarines are expected to be commissioned in service by the year 2023.

Project 75

Was launched to build six conventional submarines  domestically for Indian navy and france will be included in it. But in 2022 France pulled out from the project because of problems with respect to Air Independent Propulsion System.

project 75 wants to build advanced capable submarines under Make in India, two shipyards were finalized in year 2020 by Larsen & Toubro and Mazagon Dock Limited.