What good are submarines without torpedoes

How will the navy's six Scorpenes fight, when their primary weapon -- the Black Shark torpedo -- is blocked by a ministry of defence ban on the company chosen to supply these? This gloomy scenario......

India just saved its warships from being sitting ducks

Without advanced towed array sonar systems, all warships the navy has built and bought since the 1990s would be sitting ducks in war. Ajai Shukla reports On November 12, without announcement or......

INS Kalvari a toothless shark?

The Scorpene submarine doesn't have enough firepower; it will share 64 obsolescent SUT torpedoes till the Indian Navy is supplied with 100 heavyweight torpedoes -- a process that could take more......

Why did Kiltan join navy without sonar, copter?

'An ASW corvette without towed array sonar and an ASW helicopter is nothing more than a feeble joke,' says a retired navy commodore.Ajai Shukla reports. IMAGE:The INS Kiltan, which Defence......