Rajnath Singh visits top naval facilities and holds discussions to bolster US-India defence ties

Washington, August 25

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has visited one of the world's largest and most technically advanced water tunnel facilities for testing submarines and other naval weapons in the US, amidst a proposal for the establishment of a similar facility for indigenous design and development in India.

Singh is in the US on a four-day official visit to further boost the comprehensive global strategic partnership between the US and India.

Singh, as a part of his ongoing tour to the US, visited the William B Morgan Large Cavitation Channel (LCC) in the Naval Surface Warfare Centre (NSWC) in Memphis, Tennessee.

The LCC is one of the world's largest and most technically advanced water tunnel facilities for testing submarines, torpedoes, naval surface ships and propellers.

Singh was briefed at the facility and he witnessed an actual tunnel experiment. The discussions also intend to support the ongoing proposal for the establishment of a similar facility for indigenous design and development in India, the Press Information Bureau said in an official press release on Singh's visit to the LLC.

The LLC is capable of testing all types of ship and submarine propellers and propeller-hull interactions with model scales sufficiently large to match the largest towing and turning basins in the world.

The LKC is part of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, one of the Navy's preeminent research and development facilities that specialises in critical ship and submarine design.

The Indian delegation was greeted by Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Policy Anne Gebhards and Naval Surface Warfare Center and Undersea Warfare Center Commander Rear Adm Todd Evans.

Earlier, Singh visited the Naval Surface Warfare Centre at Carderock, Maryland.

Singh, in a post on X, said that he witnessed the path-breaking experiments at the facility.

"India and the US look forward to working together and benefiting from each other's experiences," he wrote after he visited the top American naval facility on Saturday.