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Indian Navy Continues Home-Grown Push, Signs Another Contract to Boost Warship Capabilities

© AFP 2023 INDRANIL MUKHERJEEIn this photograph taken on December 22, 2023, sailors walk on the deck of the INS IMPHAL (Yard 12706), the third stealth guided missile destroyer of Project 15B, ahead of its commissioning into the Indian Navy, at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
In this photograph taken on December 22, 2023, sailors walk on the deck of the INS IMPHAL (Yard 12706), the third stealth guided missile destroyer of Project 15B, ahead of its commissioning into the Indian Navy, at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. - Sputnik India, 1920, 02.03.2024
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The Indian Navy has embarked on an ambitious modernisation plan to become a 175-warship navy by 2035.
The Indian Navy is pushing to increase the use of local content in its warships and submarines amid a 2047 deadline to achieve 100 per cent indigenisation in all forms of naval power.
The South Asian country's blue-water navy has announced yet another deal. This time, it will purchase Reeled Compressed Air Foam (RCAF) for its naval vessels.

"The Indian Navy has signed a contract with iDEX developer M/s Adisan Systems LLP for the supply of Reeled Compressed Air Foam (RCAF) system to replace imported systems on board naval vessels," it said in a statement.

Recently, Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar emphasised the nation's self-reliance in building naval vessels, including aircraft carriers.
"A ship has three components - swimming, movement and combat. In the swimming component, we have achieved almost 95 per cent (self-sufficiency). In the 'movement' component, we are somewhere around 65 per cent and in the 'combat' component, we are at 55 per cent," Kumar said at a public event in Pune city last month.
An Indian Navy officer walks past a Mig 29 fighter jet on the deck of the Indian indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant during its commissioning at Cochin Shipyard in Kochi on September 2, 2022. - Sputnik India, 1920, 02.03.2024
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