News Indian submarine explodes in dock

[Urwumpe]

The INS Sindhurakshak (S63) (Transl.: Sea protector) has exploded after a fire started in the port of Mumbai, destroying the submarine with 18 sailors still missing. The S63 was prepared to leave port for the first time after a number of refits, and thus was also equipped with live ordnance.

The explosion damaged also another submarine slightly.

The submarine already had a battery compartment fire in 2010, the Indian submarines, derived from the Russian Kilo class, are infamous for their technical issues, there are quite a few incidents during their patrols, that are known. In 2008, another submarine of the class collided with a freighter.

The Indian minister of defense has confirmed fatalities, but does not yet tell how many died.

The submarine is very likely a full loss, especially the torpedo compartment is a twisted heap of metal now.

 

[garyw]

didn't the UK sell them a load of ex Royal navy diesel subs?

 

[MattBaker]

You're probably confusing this with the HMS Hermes.:shrug:

 

[Urwumpe]

didn't the UK sell them a load of ex Royal navy diesel subs?

Not that I can tell. They only operate 9 Kilo class submarines (Sindhughosh class) and 4 submarines based on the German 209 class (Shishumar class).

Additionally, they plan building 6 Scorpène class submarines in India to get to the planned complement of 20 submarines. (now they need one more)

The only country that still operates Royal Navy conventional submarines is Canada, which bought the rather new Upholder class submarines as replacement for their Oberon class submarines and baptized the submarine Victoria class.

 

[ky]

Wow, this happened close to the anniversary of the Kursk explosion [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_explosion"]Russian submarine Kursk explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[Notebook]

I think the UK sells mostly surface ships to India/Pakistan. Quite happy to flog aircraft to either as long as they don't have aircraft-carriers.. unlike us.

Some irony here:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/japan-unveils-new-warship-the-izumo-1-3032400

http://geordiejapan.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/the-iwakura-mission/

http://geordiejapan.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/285/

N.




Of course, we sell arms to everyone

 

[PennyBlack]

Of course, we sell arms to everyone

And those we cannot sell directly to, we use third parties. We are one of the worlds biggest arms dealers. :dynamite:

We can't garrentee you get piece of mind buying from us, but at least you can blow away a piece of the others guy's mind. :thumbup:

 

[Urwumpe]

And those we cannot sell directly to, we use third parties. We are one of the worlds biggest arms dealers. :dynamite:

We can't garrentee you get piece of mind buying from us, but at least you can blow away a piece of the others guy's mind. :thumbup:

Still, the third biggest arms dealer in the world (between 2001 and 2012) is somebody else...