India to get Russian nuclear submarine after 17 yr wait

Pressures under which our defence purchases are done has a lot to do with planning in advance. There is near bankcrupsy here:every country on earth needs defence, its no big deal, and equally, the solutions are threadbare: encourage local defence equipment production in the private sector while appointing a couple of reputed international defence equipment consultants to scour the world for best kind of technology at the cheapest price and in the given time frame. Priority of defence needs should always remain on top, just as the needs of farming should at all times. Most of all, hold the defence minister responsible, once giving him an uninterrupted five years tenure:don't change the horse midcourse! Depending continuously on other countries is sure way of exposing the exploitative tendencies of their defence exports.So, my friends, we just need to do this: create private defence production capability with sufficient funding assistance plus appointing consultants before purchases.

Either our esteemed readers donot read the contentsproperly or they choose to ignore important details.Lease for last submarine expired in 1991 and for 17 years we did not have a nuc sub.Now we are getting one after a gap of 17 years to enhance our blue water capabilities.No country buys scrap and the details are available on the net,one can get it.If it is undergoing harbor tests and will carryout deep sea tests later one has to understand that trials are carried out in respect of new eqpt and not scrap.Once ATV is ready by 2012,even that will take a lot of time for introduction in to navy.Let experts do their job and take appropriate decisions.

The old stuff of Russia is not going to help in defending our cost line, yes the possible goofing of rent may help pay elections bill to congress. The are lot contracts are out for bid...Indian Railway, Telephone, FCI, as all partites of circus will need money to pay for elections.

first of all i want to say this is a good news. second i want ot say that in current world no country can lease or sell a nuclear submarine and the peoples who says it is a junk, please search the net about nuclear sub's. they understand that it will gives indian navy more teeth and our scientists a model to develop more powerfull and advance nuclear sub's. Our ATV project is in its last stage and we have an operational ATV in 2012. till then, it gives our navy a very usefull experience to operate advance nucelear sub's.

all this abnoxious idiots have commented here about india buying scrap and crap and that india should make all things indigenously....sure after reading it i wonder how my fellow indians still leave in dream world or either think themselves tooooo smart..even super mans...if you call AKULA 2, Smerch, Gorshkov ACC crap then you are too stupid to understand things..and again idigenunity doesnt comes suddenly..it takes years and decades to acheive them, before 15 years india had only an agricultural economy and to some extend still holds that share..when how and who sons of which mothers did even got a spark to suddenly change indian future? even if we do theres hell lot time required..designin, experimental,trial, prototype,etc etc..but no one is really ready to understand and just make stupid comments on everythiing

Lakhs of rupees of public money is used to subsidize the education of IIT students, but finally these graduates move to greener pastures overseas. And to add salt to the wounds, the government buys redundant technology from abroad, since indigenous technology is still nascent.

after 17 years what we going to get is shipyard scrap, I cant believe Indians who are known to use their money wisely can do such silly thing, I bet there is a scandal in this deal.

India only buys 4th rate scrap technology.It will not work effectively.

After all the delay we will get white elephant who will eat very very much.