R Adm A K Saxena, Director (Shipbuilding), Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) speaks with BW Businessworld’s Manish Kumar Jha on the range of warships for Indian Navy and Coast Guard. On the indigenisation of weapon platform, he said MDL has achieved more than 70 percent.
On the modernisation front, MDL is aiming at a paradigm shift in warship and submarine construction enabling integrated modular construction thereby reducing the construction period. Post - modernisation, MDL capacity for shipbuilding has increased from 8 warships to 10 warships since 2014 and submarine capacity has increased from 6 submarines to 11 submarines since 2016.
