August 26, 2024: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday visited a modern US Navy testing facility for ships and submarines at Memphis in Tennessee at a time when India is looking at setting up a similar facility for locally produced platforms, the defence ministry said on Sunday.

Singh visited the William B Morgan large cavitation channel (LCC) at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre in Memphis where senior officials briefed him on one of the world’s largest and most technically advanced high-speed, variable pressure water tunnel facilities.

Senior navy and DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) officials accompanied him.