India’s maritime ambition needs a production, procurement overhaul in warships, shipbuilding
India’s ambition to build a modern, self-reliant navy is unquestionable. Yet its procurement processes continue to rely on episodic, stop-start orders that break industrial momentum, inflate costs, delay deliveries, and freeze innovation. Nothing illustrates this more sharply than Project 75(I), where India is negotiating for 2020-era submarine technology that—if contracts are signed soon—will only enter…
