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Leak not from our side, says MDL
“Competition is getting tougher and tougher, and all means can be used in this context”. The leaking will cause to trigger off countries that operate a variant of the Scorpene, or have ordered the submarine, including Malaysia, Chile and Brazil, reported The Australian newspaper.
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“The documents that have been posted on the website by an Australian news agency have been examined and do not pose any security compromise as the vital parameters have been blacked out”, said a statement released by the Indian Navy.
“I understand there has been a case of hacking”, said India’s defence minister Manohar Parrikar, adding that the Navy will present a detailed report to him.
In the wake of leak of documents relating to India’s Scorpene project, Australia has told French shipbuilding firm DCNS that it will demand the same level of information security on the new submarine project like it enjoys with its closest ally, the US.
Yesterday, the Nay had said that details in the leaked documents regarding the Scorpene submarine are not valid because the signature can be known only once the boat goes out to the seas.
The 66-metre-long INS Kalvari is part of an over United States dollars 3.5 billion contract signed by the defence ministry with French firm DCNS in October 2005 to jointly develop six submarines.
Royal Malaysian Navy’s Scorpéne-class submarine KD Tunku Abdul Rahman.
DCNS is also pitching for submarine contracts in Norway and Poland and beat Germany’s ThyssenKrupp AG and a Japanese-government backed bid by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the Australian contract.
The first of its class, deal of six Scorpene-class submarines are worth 3.5 Bn US dollars and had hardly begun its sea trials in the Mumbai.
The documents were made public by The Australian on Tuesday, which described the breach as an “Edward Snowden-sized leak”.
An anonymous source close to the matter has also claimed the leak “seems to be sensitive information but appears neither critical nor confidential”.
“The documents should not have been leaked, but there is nothing to be alarmed about”, said the source.
Officials had on Wednesday sought to play down the impact of the leak. The massive leak has also raised doubts about the security of DCNS’s submarine project in Australia where it won $38.06 billion contract to build the next generation of the submarines.
However the daily said the data was thought to have been removed from France in 2011 by a former French navy officer who at the time was a subcontractor for DCNS.
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“Despite the “Himalayan blunder” that has deeply hurt India’s defence preparedness, the Modi government/Defence Minister are indulging in “operation cover-up” instead of fixing responsibility”, he alleged.