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• Common Platform Design. Build large
number of support ships for the purpose of
combined operations that would have
interoperability well entrenched into their
designs. This would especially benefit of small
navies, as these platforms would be much more
cost effective having been built in large
numbers. Whilst smaller navies may provide
small and fast platforms, the developed navies
could have platforms with many roles combined
into one, thereby effectively supporting the
combined operations group. These large ships
could have various essential capabilities
embedded in them such as Replenishment;
Aviation; Medical Support; Sealift; Self Defence;
Combined Forces Headquarters; Command
and Surveillance and Communications, to have
full interoperability. The common platforms
should have:
• A common set of baseline
characteristics to enable interoperability of
all maritime platforms;
• Commonality, where appropriate, in
capability solution and particularly where
there are benefits in cost of ownership;
• A framework for design assurance;
• Priorities to support the development
of concepts and enabling technologies;
• Support to the management of
supporting technical documentation
• Acquiring platforms and mission systems
that have the flexibility to integrate and
interoperate with the hardware of more or less
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sophisticated navies of the IOR should be only
part of the vision of mutual technical
cooperation.
• Sub-Committee to Build, Adopt and
Maintain Common Standards. A subcommittee,
with specialists drawn from various
disciplines would have to be set up, who could
be tasked to build, adopt and maintain
common Standards.
• Whilst NATO countries have primarily
come together to fight the common enemy, IOR
navies would be more on the lines of
cooperative engagements for more common
goals such as pollution control, humanitarian
assistance during natural calamities etc and
hence in the first instance interoperability and
technical cooperation could be limited to the
equipment and systems supporting the
platforms ability to float and move. Its ability to
fight can then be progressively added as the
mutual trust and confidence builds up.
• Technical Cooperation at Laboratory
Level. Effective technical cooperation at the
laboratory level that offers the promise of
technical solutions endorsed by all nations and
adopted by the respective acquisition
communities of IOR navies.
• Technical Cooperation at Dockyard Level.
All warships are highly maintenance intensive
and every nation has its own infrastructures and
maintenance philosophy. It is therefore
important that interaction between IOR navies
at dockyard level is encouraged so as to have
better understanding of each other’s strengths
and experiences in maintaining sophisticated
weapon platforms.
Cmde(Dr) RK Rana was commissioned in Indian Navy on 01 Aug 79. He is a post graduate from the Royal Naval
Engineering College, UK and attained his PhD from IIT, Madras. Cmde Rana has served in a variety of organisations
in the Navy emcompassing training, research, dockyard, staff, ship design and onboard ships. He is presently
serving as PDOI at IHQMOD(N).
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