Highlights include the Indian Navy’s Scorpene submarine, the Mistral-Class LHD, the Gowind OPV L’Adroit together with the Barracuda SSN and a future Aircraft Carrier design.
DCNS, the defence major, announced today that the company will take part in Defexpo India to be held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi from 29th of March to the 1st of April.
At the centre of the focus, the Indian P75* Scorpene submarine will be displayed, together with its SUBTICS combat system and its optional MESMA Air Independent Propulsion section.
Recently, DCNS India has delivered the first locally produced Scorpene submarines equipment to Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) for the P75 Scorpene submarines, thus illustrating DCNS’s commitment to the indigenization. At Defexpo, DCNS local presence will be strong with DCNS India representatives explaining the successful indigenization for the P75 program in India.
“Defexpo is a very important platform for DCNS to showcase the services we can provide to our Customers through genuine transfer of technology. We have a deep industrial expertise, from the design to the in-service support.” said Bernard Buisson, Managing Director of DCNS India. “We remain fully committed to bring to the Indian government and our partners our innovative and proven technologies.”
The DCNS booth will besides showcase the Mistral-Class LHD (199 metres, 21,500 tonnes) together with the Gowind OPV L’Adroit (87 metres, 1,000 tonnes). For the record, the third Mistral-Class for the French Navy was delivered ahead of schedule and the construction of the first Mistral-Class LHD for the Russian Navy has started. Regarding the Gowind OPV L’Adroit, it has been manufactured and commissioned in less than two years, it is used by the French Navy since October 2011.
Willing to present the group’s wide range of expertise, DCNS will also display the new Barracuda SSN for the French Navy together with the design of a new generation aircraft carrier.
The company will be present in the French pavilion (Hall 12) at booth 12.2K.
* Under the program name P75, Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) is producing six SSK Scorpene submarines under ToT from DCNS. The first Scorpene submarine is to be launched at the end of 2013 and commissioned in 2015. The last Scorpene is expected to be commissioned in 2018.
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