While India's fifth Scorpene-class submarine was commissioned nearly 18 years after the deal was inked, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy had built 12 nuclear-powered general purpose attack submarines and ballistic missile submarines in the past 15 years.
The Navy continues to grapple with severely depreciated underwater platform assets, which are unlikely to be made good soon, due to flawed and unsound planning.
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It seems that in a country where the word for today and tomorrow – kal – is paradoxically the same, nobody is concerned with materiel procurement deadlines to modernise the military.