<p><strong> Project-75 & Project 75 I</strong></p>
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<p><b>Around the time of the Kargil war, Government of India approved a 30- year submarine building plan. It included the construction of 24 submarines indigenously by 2030.</b></p>
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<p><b>The submarine building plan had a separate series of submarine building lines with code names Project 75 and Project 75I.</b></p>
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<p><strong>PROJECT 75 :</strong></p>
<p><b><i>Cost</i></b></p>
<p>● <b>₹23,652 crore (equivalent to ₹290 billion or US$3.8 billion in 2020) for six units</b></p>
<p>● <b>₹3,942 crore (equivalent to ₹48 billion or US$640 million in 2020) per unit (FY 2016)</b></p>
<p><b>Planned:-6</b></p>
<p><b>Building:-1</b></p>
<p><b>Completed:-5</b></p>
<p><b>Active:-4</b></p>
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<p><b>Project 75 is a programme by the Indian Navy that envisaged building six Scorpene-Class attack submarines.</b></p>
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<p><b>The Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) is manufacturing six Scorpene submarines with technical assistance from the Naval Group of France.</b></p>
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<p><b>The submarines in the project 75 scorpion class are powered by the conventional diesel electric propulsion system.</b></p>
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<p><b>There are two types of submarines</b></p>
<p><b>1St Diesel-Electric submarine</b></p>
<p><b>2nd Nuclear powered submarine</b></p>
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<p>● <b><i>Submarines under Project 75 commissioned to the Indian Navy so far:-</i></b></p>
<p>● <b>1st Scorpene submarine kalvari-Dec 2017</b></p>
<p>● <b>2nd Scorpene submarine khanderi:-Sep 2019</b></p>
<p>● <b>3rd Scorpene submarine karanj:-march 2021</b></p>
<p>● <b>4th scorpene Submarine Vella:-nov 2021</b></p>
<p>● <b>Trial of 5th submarine Vagsheer is going on till now.</b></p>
<p>● <b>6th under construction</b></p>
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<p><b><i>PROJECT 75I :</i></b></p>
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<p><b>Builders:-</b></p>
<p>● <b>L&T Shipbuilding</b></p>
<p>● <b>Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders</b></p>
<p>● <b>Four foreign firms have so far responded to the Indian government’s request for proposals for the project.</b></p>
<p>● <b>These are French firm Naval Group, Russia’s Rosoboronexport Rubin Design Bureau, Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and Sweden’s Saab.</b></p>
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<p><b>Cost:-</b></p>
<p>● <b>₹43,000 crore (US$5.7 billion)</b></p>
<p><b>Capable of conducting -</b></p>
<p>● <b>Anti-surface warfare (ASuW)</b></p>
<p>● <b>Anti-submarine warfare (AAW)</b></p>
<p>● <b>ISR</b></p>
<p>● <b>Special Operations Forces (SOF)</b></p>
<p>● <b>Supporting operations ashore</b></p>
<p>● <b>Operating in open ocean and shallow/littoral waters</b></p>
<p><b>This will be an important step towards meeting broader national objectives, encouraging self-reliance and aligning the defence sector with the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government.</b></p>
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<p><b>Project-75 (I) envisages indigenous construction of six modern conventional submarines with contemporary equipment, weapons & sensors including Fuel-Cell based AIP (Air Independent Propulsion Plant), advanced torpedoes, modern missiles and state-of-the-art countermeasure systems.</b></p>
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