{"id":219036,"date":"2022-12-19T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219036"},"modified":"2022-12-19T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:32:34","slug":"creators-of-our-destroyers-ins-mormugao-commissioned-yesterday-shows-both-the-progress-weakness-in-indigenous-warship-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/creators-of-our-destroyers-ins-mormugao-commissioned-yesterday-shows-both-the-progress-weakness-in-indigenous-warship-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Creators Of Our Destroyers – INS Mormugao, commissioned yesterday, shows both the progress & weakness in indigenous warship building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cCreators Of Our Destroyers – INS Mormugao, commissioned yesterday, shows both the progress & weakness in indigenous warship building\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/b>on 19th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About India’s shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: INS Mormugao, the Indian navy\u2019s latest destroyer of the Project 15B class, has been commissioned recently.<\/p>\n

About the Project-15 (P15) family of ships<\/h5>\n

The Project-15 (P15) class started with INS Delhi. It is India\u2019s first home-built destroyer. It was commissioned in November 1997 and set a new benchmark.<\/p>\n

Apart from three ships<\/strong> of the P15 class, there have been three of the P15A<\/strong> named the Kolkata class<\/strong>. Visakhapatnam<\/strong> was the lead ship of the P15B class followed by Mormugao<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

These ships now complete most of their trials and even weapon firings before commissioning so that they are ready to go in harm\u2019s way sooner.<\/p>\n

What are the weaknesses associated with India’s shipbuilding industry?<\/h5>\n

1)<\/strong> INS Mormugao has taken the shortest build time of about seven years<\/strong> due to integrated shipbuilding, while the INS Delhi took over 10 years. But, a drop of build time from 10-plus years to about 6-7 years over a 35-year build period, is by itself not impressive.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> There are some major commonalities between all three sub-classes of the P15, so efficiencies should have been better.<\/p>\n

What are the improvements in India’s shipbuilding industry?<\/h5>\n

There have been generational improvements in each sub-class<\/strong>. Both in terms of combat capabilities, as well as indigenous content. \u201cIndianisation\u201d percentages have improved in the \u201cfloat and fight\u201d components<\/strong> when compared to the P15s.<\/p>\n

For example, a)<\/strong> The steel for the hull and superstructure is now made in India; b)<\/strong> More of the electronic components for electronic warfare, communications and radars are now either Indian-origin or licence-built in larger numbers with knowledge accretion from Indian partner firms in the public and private sectors, c)<\/strong> Weapons and their launchers are collaborative like the accurate and lethal Brahmos, d)<\/strong> The main and secondary guns as well as anti-submarine ordnance which is now more \u201cIndian\u201d than any time earlier, e)<\/strong> There are other design improvements across evolutionary processes that benefit stability, damage control, sea-keeping and stealth through more automation and improved systems needing fewer operators.<\/p>\n

WhCreators Of Our Destroyers – INS Mormugao, commissioned yesterday, shows both the progress & weakness in indigenous warship buildingeeds improvement in India’s shipbuilding industry?<\/h5>\n

In the \u201cmove\u201d area or propulsion<\/strong>, Indian ships reflect big lacunae. For example, frigates and destroyers still require imported gas turbines<\/strong>. India does not have any indigenous options even under imported transfer of technology neither in aero nor in marine gas turbines. This has to be improved.<\/p>\n

Given the turmoil in Russia and Ukraine, ships that depend on hardware from these two countries<\/strong> could face problems that need to be addressed with \u2018atmanirbharta\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cCreators Of Our Destroyers – INS Mormugao, commissioned yesterday, shows both the progress & weakness in indigenous warship building\u201d published in The Times of India on 19th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate. Relevance: About India’s shipbuilding industry. News: INS… Continue reading Creators Of Our Destroyers – INS Mormugao, commissioned yesterday, shows both the progress & weakness in indigenous warship building<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-219036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702942645},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}