New Delhi, June 9 -- The Indian Navy has embarked upon aggressive shipbuilding. Indian shipyards have been active, with a large number of ships and submarines on order.

The shipbuilding cycle has significantly reduced in India and platforms are being inducted into service at an accelerated pace. Though ship design and construction are predominantly indigenous, India still imports high-technology equipment of the so-called 'Move' category (which includes high-power engines, gas turbines and propulsion motors and the like), 'Fight' category (radars, missile systems and so on) and special category systems for specialized platforms such as tankers, aircraft carriers and submarines. Indigenization efforts in these categories, however, are cur...