Cochin Shipyard To Build Three Air Defence Ships ADS
Huma Siddiqui
New Delhi, April 11: The Cabinet committee on security (CSS) has approved awarding contract to Cochin Shipyard for construction of three air defence ships (ADS) for the Navy. According to highly placed sources, the ADS is based on a design developed by French company Direction des Constructions Naval. However, the design has been modified by the Naval Design Organisation to suit the local requirements.
Navy chief Admiral Madhvendra Singh said, “the Navy proposes to have at least three carriers, so that one each can be deployed on the West and East coasts, while the maintenance on the third one can be carried out.” GE Marine Engines has a manufacturing and technical license assistance agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics for assembly, inspection and test of marine LM 2500 gas turbines selected for the Navy Frigate and the ADS programmes.
During early last year, it was reported that the ADS will be ready by 2008. But apprehensions were expressed that the pace of modernising naval shipyards has affected indigenisation. In May 1999, the then government had approved the indigenous construction of an ADS of around 24,000 tonne displacement.
The Naval chief said the work on the indigenous construction of the ADS, approved in 1999 was in progress. The displacement of the proposed ship, which will carry a full squadron of fighter aircraft, would be over 30,000 tonne. “It’s a very ambitious project and will take the country’s warship building to an entirely new level,” he claimed.
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Huma Siddiqui
New Delhi, April 11: The Cabinet committee on security (CSS) has approved awarding contract to Cochin Shipyard for construction of three air defence ships (ADS) for the Navy. According to highly placed sources, the ADS is based on a design developed by French company Direction des Constructions Naval. However, the design has been modified by the Naval Design Organisation to suit the local requirements.
Navy chief Admiral Madhvendra Singh said, “the Navy proposes to have at least three carriers, so that one each can be deployed on the West and East coasts, while the maintenance on the third one can be carried out.” GE Marine Engines has a manufacturing and technical license assistance agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics for assembly, inspection and test of marine LM 2500 gas turbines selected for the Navy Frigate and the ADS programmes.
During early last year, it was reported that the ADS will be ready by 2008. But apprehensions were expressed that the pace of modernising naval shipyards has affected indigenisation. In May 1999, the then government had approved the indigenous construction of an ADS of around 24,000 tonne displacement.
The Naval chief said the work on the indigenous construction of the ADS, approved in 1999 was in progress. The displacement of the proposed ship, which will carry a full squadron of fighter aircraft, would be over 30,000 tonne. “It’s a very ambitious project and will take the country’s warship building to an entirely new level,” he claimed.
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