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ATV submarine program provides model for complex technology development
  • Integrated Navy, DRDO and Atomic Energy under single authority
  • Vice Admiral with secretary-level powers cuts through bureaucracy
  • Delivered 4 nuclear submarines in 25 years
  • Demonstrates benefits of user-producer integration
SundepanIndia Today00:18:55

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If there is a model to master and replicate technologies. You have that model in your house... the ATV kind of thing to capture this technology. Sundepan
2026, more than 25 years later, you have four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines in the water moving. Two are deployed, two are on sea trials. Sundepan

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