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In a major milestone, India has completed successful development of indigenous anti-submarine rockets for the Navy’s destroyers, frigates and corvettes.
The anti-submarine rocket of RGB-12 class is being indigenously designed and developed by the Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project (HAPP), a Tiruchi based ordnance factory with technical help from the naval laboratories of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
A senior HAPP official said the ordnance factory has developed 10 prototypes of the new generation RGB-12 anti-submarine type rocket which are currently in user trials at the Institute of Armament Research, a unit of DRDO. With several improved features, the indigenously developed rocket named RGB-60, will complete their trial evaluation by August this year.
India has now become the fifth nation after the United States, Russia, France and Israel to develop this complex anti-submarine rocket technology.
However, a senior Indian Navy official announced that the HAPP developed RGO-60 rockets are a re-engineered version of the existing Russian RGB -12 rockets with some modifications.
The Indian Navy currently spends $250 million annually for procurement of such anti-submarine rockets.
A HAPP official further noted that the Indian Navy is likely to place an order for an unspecified number of these rockets later this year.
The Indian Navy has been using RBU-6000, RBU-6000 (RPK-8), RBU-12000 (UDAV-1), RBU-1000 and GSh-30 anti-submarine rockets, which were largely procured from Russia.
HAPP also has Asia’s largest powder metallurgy plants, dealing with tungsten alloys for the manufacture of kinetic energy projectiles. Set up in 1984, as a unit of DRDO, it manufactures the FSAPDS (Fin Stabilized Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot), also called the APFSDS, which is a high kinetic energy weapon used in tank and other Armour piercing ammunition.
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