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Defence Minister seeks Navy reports on Scorpene Submarine data leak

by IBNS 24 Aug 2016, 08:14 am

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IBNS) : Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought a report from the Indian Navy on the leaks highly sensitive data Highly sensitive data detailing almost every aspect of the combat capability of India's Scorpene-class submarine.

Media reports quoted Parrikar as saying that it is an act of hacking and the Government wants to ascertain if it relates to India. 

Scorpene  submarine is being designed by a French company, which has also won bid for Australia.

The news of the leak was first reported by The Austrailian, an Australian newspaper.

 "the most lethal conventional submarine ever contemplated", has been leaked, the newspaper The Australian reportedon Wednesday.

India has placed an order with the French Defence contractor DCNS for designing the Scorpene exclusively for India involving an expenditure of 3.45 billion dollars. 

"Marked “Restricted Scorpene India”, the DCNS documents ­detail the most sensitive combat capabilities of India’s new  submarine fleet and would provide an ­intelligence bonanza if obtained by India’s strategic rivals, such as Pakistan or China," The Australian reported.

 Among the 22,400 pages of leaked documents were also thousands of pages on the Scorpene's sensors and thousands more on its communication and navigation systems. As many as 500 pages were on the torpedo launch system alone.

The DCNS website says the Scorpene would be "the recipient of France's most sensitive and protected submarine technology and will be the most lethal conventional submarine ever contemplated".