According to DCNS Scorpene is the most lethal conventional submarine in history. It was designed for the Indian Navy and several units were purchased by Malaysia and Chile. (Here in India, May 1, 2016.) (INDIAN NAVY / AFP / HO)
The technical and confidential data that the DCNS qualifies as the most lethal submarines conventional history could they fall into the wrong hands? According to The Australian, the French shipbuilder was the victim of a massive data leak. The 22,400 pages disclosed, the Australian newspaper claims to have consulted detail the combat capabilities of the Scorpene, designed for the Indian Navy and several units which were purchased by Malaysia and Chile.
The documents describe the probes of the vessels, their communication and navigation systems, and 500 pages are devoted exclusively to torpedo system, the newspaper said.
The AUSTRALIA relativized
the leak might also worry Brazil, which must deploy these submarines from 2018, and Australia, which has awarded a contract in April 50 billion Australian dollars ($ 38 billion US) to DCNS group to design and manufacture its next generation of submarines.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull acknowledged that the leak was “worrying” while relativizing the potential impact for Australia. “The submarine we build or we will build with the French called the Barracuda, and is totally different from the Scorpene designed for the Indian navy,” has he told Australian Channel Seven chain.
“We have safety devices to our information of the highest defense, either through exchanges with other countries or in Australia,” he added. The leak has “no connection with the next submarine program of the Australian government,” he said in a statement the Australian Industry Minister of Defence, Christopher Pyne. This program, said the minister, “is set in a very strict framework that governs how all information and technical data are managed and will be managed in the future.”
SURVEY IN FRANCE
the DCNS group, owned 62% by the French state, told AFP that “the national safety authorities” French “investigating”, without giving further details. “The investigation will determine the exact nature of the documents that were the subject of these leaks, the potential damage to our customers as well as the responsibilities,” the group added.
According to The Australian, DCNS would suggested that the leak could come from India rather than France. The data, however, could have been washed out of France in 2011 by a former French naval officer who at the time was a subcontractor of DCNS. The documents could have passed through the southeast Asian companies before being sent to a company in Australia, the paper said.
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