Russia, who has withdrawn from the Indian Navy tender for the construction of six sophisticated submarines under the 75i project, has given India that they cannot meet the terms and conditions for the CRORE project more than ₹ 40,000. Calling it unrealistic, a senior Russian official said on Monday that without changes in the whole process, the process could not move forward.
“The requirements stated in the Proposal Request (RFP) demand a very strict schedule and many responsibilities to the designer. At the same time, the designer has no control over construction, which occurs in India, “said Andrey Baranov, Deputy Director General, Rubin Design Bureau, spoke on the inaugural day of the ARMY-20122 Expo. “We were the first to leave the project and the last one we knew to leave the project was France,” he said.
States that this project is very good as long as it concerns the design, Mr. Baranov said where the implementation in India was concerned, “This is not so good and therefore nothing has happened”. “So, without changes in the whole process, nothing will happen,” he said.
As reported by Hinduism before, the Ministry of Defense once again extended the deadline to submit a response from 30 June at the end of December until the end of December, and the Navy has also approached the Ministry for relaxation of certain specifications that have made most non -non -non -non -submarine manufacturers – Compliant. The agreement was the first under the strategic partnership model of the procurement procedure to make progress.
Their main concerns are the requirements determined by the Indian Navy and the arrangement for this is not suitable, said Baranov. Described, he said the Indian Navy wanted technology transfer, having sophisticated submarines with strong missiles, stealth and so on but there were no world navy that had similar submarine prototypes. So we talk about the development of a truly new submarine, he said.
Mr. Baranov noted that the important part of the RFP was that construction would be carried out in India and if the schedule was not fulfilled, “the punishment is very high”.
“We have said that from the beginning that building the first class submarine is not possible in this timeline,” he said, and added, “We understand that when the first class ship was built there will be many natural problems for the development process. “
In January 2020, the Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) had elected Mazgaon Docks Limited (MDL) and Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) as Indian partners for the P-75i agreement. Five original foreign equipment manufacturers (OEM) including Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (South Korea), Naval Group (France), Navantia (Spain), Rosoboronexport (Russia), and TKMS (Germany).
RFP was released in July 2021 to MDL and L&T, with 12 weeks to respond. Indian companies are free to bind with one of the five previous selected OEMs.
However, this project is experiencing bad weather, among others, above one of the specifications mentioned, that the submarines offered must have an Independent Water Operational Propulsion Module (AIP). Only Germany and South Korea technically meet this criterion, the official source said.
In addition, most OEMs expressed concern over schedules, technology transfer rates, and third party guarantees.
Project-75 (i) imagine the original construction of six modern conventional submarines with contemporary equipment, weapons and sensors, including the fuel-based air independent propulsion system (AIP), sophisticated torpedo, modern missiles, and sophisticated sophisticated system.
The navy currently has 15 conventional and nuclear submarine services. This includes seven Russian kilo class submarines, four German HDW submarines, four French Scorpene submarines, and nuclear nuclear ballistic missile submarines. The last two scorpene class submarines are in various stages of trials and equipment.
