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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9893)12/3/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) of 12475
 
Navy equipping submarines with Cruise missiles'-Blue water Navy?

December 3, 1999, 17:00 Hrs (IST)

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is shortly equipping its Kilo class submarines with Klub missiles with a 300 km range as it aims to achieve full blue water capability by 2010, chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sushil Kumar said today.

This is the first time that Indian submarines will have these cruise missiles.

Speaking to reporters on the eve of the Navy Day, Admiral Sushil Kumar however, said the thrust of the blue water capability would be on the Indian Ocean region. 'Global perception has never been our scheme of things.'

To a question whether it would be necessary to equip the Indian Navy with nuclear capability to give it the status of a blue water navy he said Indian Navy could achieve that status even without nuclear submarines.

He said the navy required at least two operational carriers for an effective combat capability but the long-term objective was to have a three carrier navy keeping in view India's vast maritime zone.

Indicating that the thrust had to be on developing infrastructure and information technology he said the proposed doctrine aimed at conflict prevention which included active physical presence, diplomacy and deterrence of conflict. Citing the recent example of the seizure of pirated ship 'MV Alondra Rainbow' by the Indian Navy the navy chief described it as one of the finest examples of the use of it which had made the seizure possible within a 'split second' of getting the information.

Describing the 20th century as a 'continentalist century' which saw an emphasis of land-based wars, he said the next millennium would be a maritime era and a new 'columbian age.' The emphasis in the next millennium would be on economic interdependence energy security and international maritime trade.

UNI


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