South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch occurred from waters near the eastern port city of Sinpo, where North Korea has a major shipyard building submarines.
Naval Group's announcement comes a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Paris where he is scheduled meet recently re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron.
INS Vagsheer will be transferred on April 20. Once it is inducted, a sea trial of the beat will be carried out for a year.
The claims were made by Major General Babar Iftikhar, Director General of the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on social media, who also stated that the incident took place on March 1.
"China sent a Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine warfare plane into Taiwan's ADIZ," Taiwan News reported citing the country's Ministry of National Defense.
INS Vela: The submarine has been built by Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd in collaboration with M/s Naval Group of France.
The agency has questioned dozens of senior Naval officers in the case, which came to light on September 3.
The Commissioning of ‘Visakhapatnam’ and ‘Vela’ are major milestones showcasing the Indigenous capacity to build complex combat platforms.
The CBI had arrested two retired officers and during searches, the agency recovered Rs 2 crore from the residence of one of them.
The North’s neighbors said Tuesday that they detected the North’s missile firing and said the weapon landed in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
The officials said it was not yet clear what object the sub had struck but that it was not another submarine.
North Korea has continued testing shorter range weapons threatening U.S. allies South Korea and Japan in an apparent effort to pressure the Biden administration over the stalled diplomacy.
The Australian government said it regretted France’s decision to recall its ambassador to that nation.
The Indian Navy plans to acquire 24 new submarines, including six nuclear attack submarines, to bolster its underwater fighting capability.
Indonesia's military on Sunday officially said all 53 crew members from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week are dead, and that search teams had located the vessel's wreckage on the ocean floor.
According to Indonesian authorities, the KRI Nanggala-402, a German-made submarine, went missing during a military exercise around the Bali Strait on Wednesday.
Indonesia's military says a navy submarine is missing near the resort island of Bali with 53 people on board.
The scorpene-class submarine INS Karanj commissioned into the Indian Navy in Mumbai on Wednesday, in the presence of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh and Admiral (Retired) VS Shekhawat.
Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) has a force multiplier effect on lethality of a diesel electric submarine as it enhances the submerged endurance of the boat, several folds.
The scorpene-class submarine INS Karanj to be commissioned on March 10. This is the third in the series of six submarine built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders.
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