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By Vivek Raghuvanshi
NEW DELHI — India's Ministry of Defence has drawn up a list of warship systems and equipment that it will only acquire from domestic industry, an MoD source said, although the Navy will continue to depend on imports for weapons and equipment.
The move follows a decision earlier this year to limit warship and submarine building to domestic industry from the design stage, while allowing import of select systems and equipment.
This equipment has been divided into categories: Float, Move and Fight.
Whereas the list reserved for domestic sources includes systems and equipment from the Float and Move categories, the Indian Navy will continue to import items from the Fight category, the MoD source added.
“The domestic sector will have to be patronized, keeping the long-term requirement of self-reliance in mind," said naval architect S. Navaneetha Krishnan, a retired Indian Navy. "If the domestic sector/shipyard is not confident, then they should be permitted to develop a tie-up with a suitable foreign original equipment manufacturer [OEM]. The advantage of this approach will be that the Indian industry will get technology in selected areas.”
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