[🇮🇳] France offers tech to make India Navy's submarines almost invisible in Indian Ocean Region

France offers tech to make India Navy's submarines almost invisible in Indian Ocean Region​

France has offered advanced pumpjet propulsion technology for India's Project 66 and Project 77 submarines, enhancing stealth, maneuverability, and operational effectiveness, strengthening India's underwater capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region

By The Week News Desk Updated: November 26, 2024 13:05 IST


In what may come as a major enhancement to the stealth capabilities of the Indian Navy's submarine programmes, an advanced pumpjet propulsion technology has been offered by France for the planned next-generation diesel-electric attack submarines, known as Project 66, and Project 77, which is the initiative to acquire nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs).

The pumpset propulsion technology, a sophisticated alternative to traditional propeller systems, is already operational in the French Barracuda-class submarine. The technology significantly decreases the acoustic signature of submarines, allowing for quieter operations and improved stealth capabilities. If the deal goes through, the submarines of India may become some of the quietest in the Indian Ocean Region, offering a major advantage for the Indian Navy in underwater warfare.

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Stealth is of extreme importance to submarines operating in hostile waters.

Apart from helping minimize the noise produced during operation, this cutting-edge tech will also offer enhanced maneuverability to submarines, giving them an added edge while navigating complex waters.

“In a comparison between two otherwise identical submarines, the one with the pumpjet will always have a lower dived endurance, a lower dived range, a worse indiscretion ratio, a lower overall endurance, and a lower overall range, than the one with a propeller. This will confer a substantial tactical and strategic advantage on the conventionally-propelled submarine in a very broad range of operational scenarios," a report titled 'Australia’s Future Submarine: Getting this Key Capability Right' read.

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The adoption of this technology will help India's operational effectiveness of its submarine fleet, making it a formidable power in the Indo-Pacific region. France's willingness to offer this advanced technology to India demonstrates the growing defence ties between the two countries, which also involves joint military exercises across air, sea, and land domains and co-design, co-development, and co-production of military hardware.

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Bilal9 said:

All this is great news but how will IN explain another French leak of the tech for the submarine being built at Mazagaon last time (in 2016)?

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Krishna with Flute said:

France offers tech to make India Navy's submarines almost invisible in Indian Ocean Region​

France has offered advanced pumpjet propulsion technology for India's Project 66 and Project 77 submarines, enhancing stealth, maneuverability, and operational effectiveness, strengthening India's underwater capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region

By The Week News Desk Updated: November 26, 2024 13:05 IST

In what may come as a major enhancement to the stealth capabilities of the Indian Navy's submarine programmes, an advanced pumpjet propulsion technology has been offered by France for the planned next-generation diesel-electric attack submarines, known as Project 66, and Project 77, which is the initiative to acquire nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs).

The pumpset propulsion technology, a sophisticated alternative to traditional propeller systems, is already operational in the French Barracuda-class submarine. The technology significantly decreases the acoustic signature of submarines, allowing for quieter operations and improved stealth capabilities. If the deal goes through, the submarines of India may become some of the quietest in the Indian Ocean Region, offering a major advantage for the Indian Navy in underwater warfare.

READ MORE: Did Indian Navy quietly launch its fourth nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine?

Stealth is of extreme importance to submarines operating in hostile waters.

Apart from helping minimize the noise produced during operation, this cutting-edge tech will also offer enhanced maneuverability to submarines, giving them an added edge while navigating complex waters.

“In a comparison between two otherwise identical submarines, the one with the pumpjet will always have a lower dived endurance, a lower dived range, a worse indiscretion ratio, a lower overall endurance, and a lower overall range, than the one with a propeller. This will confer a substantial tactical and strategic advantage on the conventionally-propelled submarine in a very broad range of operational scenarios," a report titled 'Australia’s Future Submarine: Getting this Key Capability Right' read.

ALSO READ: India's Rs 40,000 crore nuclear submarine plans set to significantly boost Navy's fighting powers

The adoption of this technology will help India's operational effectiveness of its submarine fleet, making it a formidable power in the Indo-Pacific region. France's willingness to offer this advanced technology to India demonstrates the growing defence ties between the two countries, which also involves joint military exercises across air, sea, and land domains and co-design, co-development, and co-production of military hardware.

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Since Indian Ocean is going to become the most active area of naval activities in days to come, India should ensure that she has the best naval technology for credible deterrence and dominance of Indian Ocean.