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India's Department of Defence Production (DDP), Ministry of Defence has released the Security Manual, applicable for all companies having valid Defence Industrial License. Some key features of this manual are:

• Categorization of defence products for security reasons into three classes; A - Highest level of security; B - Medium level of security;  C - Minimal level...

Goa Shipyard Ltd is in the process of construction of six Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for Indian Coast Guard. The first OPV will be ready for delivery as per schedule by October 2015 and all six vessels will be delivered to Indian Coast Guard by November 2017. Till now, GSL has delivered total...

Indian Navy got the delivery of largest indigenously developed offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra. The vessel is developed by Indian state-owned Goa Shipyard Limited. The vessel is the fourth in the series of 105-metre vessels built by the shipyard for the Navy. It is equipped with large number of state-of-the-art indigenous electronic, communication...

Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) has entered in to a contract-manufacturing tie-up with UK-based Cobham to make the latter’s air-to-air refuelling equipment for aircrafts in India. TASL provides integrated solutions for aerospace defence and homeland security markets in India and makes equipment for radar systems and night-vision devices and unmanned aerial systems; whereas Cobham...

Thales has expressed desire to enter Indian defence market, in collaboration with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).  On the other hand, Airbus Helicopter is also keen on associating with HAL’s multi-role helicopters, including the naval version and has offered to play a greater role in building the Indian chopper market, which holds huge...

Indian Coast Guard (ICG) received three high speed indigenously designed and built Interceptor Boats from L&T Shipbuilding. According to the tender L&T shipbuilding has to build 36 Interceptor Boats for the Coast Guard, out of which eleven has already been delivered. The boats are installed with state of the art navigation, communication equipment...

Indian company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has recently acquired 74 per cent stake in Thales Software India Pvt Ltd, to grow its avionics business. Thales Software is an Indian subsidiary of France-based Thales which is the global technology leader in aerospace, transportation and defence and security markets. In the new venture, L&T Technology...

Indian shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE) built Anti Submarine Warfare Corvette (ASW) INS Kamorta has been commissioned into the Indian Navy. With about 90 per cent of the ship being indigenous, it would also be the first warship armed with an indigenous rocket launcher for anti submarine warfare. The ASW...

Russia is currently designing a fifth-generation conventional submarine, Project Kalina, which will be fitted with an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system. The AIP system is expected to be completed by 2017 while the first boat fitted with such a system is scheduled to be build by 2018.

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/naval-warfare/59621-kalina-class-5th-gen-conventional-submarine.html

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The US Navy has announced to build 10 new SSN 774 Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarines. The worth of the contract is about $17.64 billion. The order envisages prime contractor General Dynamics Electric Boat and chief subcontractor Newport News Shipbuilding, a unit of Huntington Ingalls Industries to deliver two submarines per year over...