India's latest submarine programme, with all its secrets about stealth, is circulating on social media. This is after a newspaper in Australia, called The Australian, claimed it had accessed 22,400 pages of technical literature, manuals, presentations and specifications on the Scorpene submarine project. The first of six Scorpene submarines is set to be commissioned as the INS Kalvari (Tiger Shark) next month. The leak of data has shaken both the defence minister and the Prime Minister, none of who is a military professional. When it was contracted, the Scorpene submarine programme was estimated to be Rs 24,000 crore.

Source: The Telegraph August 24, 2016 21:56 UTC