NEW DELHI — Eyeing the Indian Navy’s plan to build six nuclear attack submarines, private sector Reliance Defence has announced it will set up a dedicated shipyard close to the Navy’s shipyard at Visakhapatnam to build nuclear submarines.
The shipyard will “be co-located with the Indian Navy’s strategic base and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC’s) nuclear facility at Rambilli 70 kilometers south of Vizag,” according to a Sunday statement by Reliance Defence, a subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure owned by billionaire Anil Ambani.