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Designs on the future: the strengths and limitations of building a home-grown navy / Gupta, N. P

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When it was formed, the Indian Navy had a vision to truly become a builder’s navy. Initial historical steps in this direction were license production of Leander class frigates at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) and setting up of an inhouse design organisation called Directorate of Naval Design (DND) headed by the Director General Naval Design (DGND). The DGND has played a crucial role towards achieving this goal. This article briefly reviews acquisition procedures and the role of design organisation in the process of acquisition.

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Flying the fleet: aircraft maintainability is shifting from spares and support to guaranteed availability on the flight line / Chandra, Atul

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A key improvement that has taken place across some of the newest acquisitions by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Navy (IN) has been the substantially improved aircraft on tarmac availability. The biggest change has been the willingness of both services to pay for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance and service support packages which guarantee aircraft readiness rates instead of merely providing the required spares and maintenance support. Such an approach also allows the economies of scale to be leveraged across a worldwide spares support base and clear forecasting of spares requirements based on the manufacturer and user data. This is a far cry from the Eighties and Nineties when brand new aircraft inducted from the erstwhile Soviet Union had poor flight line availability, with the manufacturers not being held accountable for significant shortfalls in aircraft reliability and excessive consumption of spare parts.

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Undersea attack: submarine launched cruise missiles offer a stealthy strike option against targets at sea or land / Chandra, Atul

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Submarine launched cruise missiles offer a deadly and standoff strike capability to India’s existing and planned fleet of diesel and nuclear submarines. Armed with conventional warheads, three distinct types will be in operation on Indian Navy submarines, both old and new. Submarine launched cruise missiles are not only expensive to procure, store and maintain, they are also expensive and time consuming to design and develop. Development of follow-on types for cruise missiles currently in service is already underway. The game-changer for India will, of course, be the submarine launched version of the Brahmos.

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