The second India-UK Electric Propulsion Capability Partnership Joint Working Group meeting, which took place in New Delhi on Tuesday, was where India and the UK talked about the future of electric propulsion in naval ships.
Rajeev Prakash, Joint Secretary (Naval Systems) at the Department of Defence Production, and Rear Admiral Steve McCarthy, Director, Ships Operations and Capability Integration, Defence Equipment & Support, was in charge of the meeting together.
At the 2022 Defence Expo in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, groups from India and the UK’s defense industry came together to form a new joint working group so that they could work together better.
The Electric Propulsion Capability Partnership was created after the Gadhinagar expo to help India develop technologies for electric propulsion in the sea for its future warships.
India’s naval warships do not have electric propulsion systems at this time. They might be added to future warships by the Indian Navy.
Tuesday, the British and Indian governments talked about the Electric Propulsion Partnership. They talked about things like finishing the Statement of Technical Requirements (SOTR), the procedures for the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), maintenance, the Manning Philosophy, and the requirements for system integration.
“Progress through partnership with people and safety at its heart and huge capability opportunity for the @indiannavy,” the UK Defense in India wrote in a post on X, which used to be Twitter. The future looks bright for our marine engineers.
For propulsion, electric propulsion uses electricity to power propeller blades.
Creating electric propulsion can help the military in many ways, such as by making more electricity available, lowering carbon emissions, and making ship navigation more cost-effective.
India has always worked with the UK on a variety of defense issues, and defense dialogue has been established at the level of the Defence Secretary.
There are also regular exchanges between the Indian army and the two services. For example, the Indian army helps train officers and runs joint exercises.
India and the UK worked together on the 7th edition of AJEYA WARRIOR-23, a military exercise, which took place in the UK from April to May of this year. The exercise alternates between the UK and India. The most recent one took place in Chaubatia, Uttarakhand.
Members of the 2 Royal Gorkha Rifles from the UK and the BIHAR Regiment from the Indian Army were there.
According to a statement from the Indian Ministry of Defence, the exercise’s goals were to improve military relations, learn from each other’s best practices, and encourage the ability to work together while carrying out sub-conventional operations at the company level in urban and semi-urban settings under UN mandate. The exercise was also meant to promote interoperability, friendship, and goodwill between the two armies.
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