PapaDragon wrote:miketheterrible wrote:India doesn't have the blueprints to this. Its leased, not sold.
And it's staffed by Indians who are not immune to cash.
Just having the sub doesn't mean they understand the construction, or have access to technical data.
There is a major claus in the lease agreement that if the submarine suffers a certain level of damage it must be repaired at Russian docks.
That is because the Indians do not have access to the sensitives on the ship they only know enough to do surface repairs, not deep repairs, deep repairs would require the blueprints and other information. so the secert information of the akula's are quite safe in order for India to know this they would have to take the sub apart completely. Reserving engineering is not an easy thing to do.
While I agree with alot of what you say Pap's on this one you are mistaken.