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Kamov Ka-31 helicopter landing on the deck of a U.S. Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser
One thing that most of us forget among all the big ticket stealth frigates,destroyers is the unsung troops of IN- the OPVs...The newest models (Saryu class) are well-armed, weigh about 2000 tons and are ocean going..and would be considered frigates in some countries. The Sukanya class has also been retrofitted with the Dhanush ballistic missiles.
India should build more of these cost effective solutions for herself and also for export to friendly nations like Viet Nam.
INS Suvarna ( Sukanya class OPV)
INS Sumitra (Saryu class OPV)
Many OPVs cost close to 100 million$...Some of them are way too expensive...but i think the right question should be, even with cheaper raw material (since SAIL started producing special steel), cheaper labor and electricity how we manage to reach such a cost. Infact warship building in India should be cheaper like in China but we somehow manage to build some of the most costly warship on the planet.In the case of the Saryu class the boats cost >$100 million each, not many nations can afford to spend such huge amounts on OPVs.
Many OPVs cost close to 100 million$...Some of them are way too expensive...but i think the right question should be, even with cheaper raw material (since SAIL started producing special steel), cheaper labor and electricity how we manage to reach such a cost. Infact warship building in India should be cheaper like in China but we somehow manage to build some of the most costly warship on the planet.
Look, how MOD sanctioned 45000 cr. INR (8.63 billion$ = 1.23 billion$ per ship )for 7 frigates (P17a). I mean WTF ?? Its not like its 7000 or 8000 tons heavy or is super stealthy like Visby....Just pay 500 million $ to BAE and you will get a brand new Type 26 frigate...for crying out loud even Typ 45 destroyer doesnot cost this much. Or in 700 million $ you will FREMM or German new F15 frigate (7200 ton) cost 650 million $ per ship.
In short god knows WTF our shipyards are doing as we are paying double for our warships and still the projects gets delayed by 3-5 years and resulting in cost over-run....
I think in this 8.63 billion $ we should order 17 Type 26 frigate and let 2,2 warship to be build by both GRSE and MDL...thats enough for them...they don't really have the capability to fulfill the order book that they have and the new ships that are planned...
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MDL is still busy with Shivalik class frigate and all the kolkatta class DDG are not yet delivered...they also haven't delivered any of the Scorpenes and it looks like they will get busy with P75I after this....After this they also got 4 follow on DDG order...
GRSE is busy with 4 P28 ASW corvette and followed by 8 P28A ASW corvettes and 8 LCUs.
In addition to all this all the missile boats are getting old and according to some reports around 16-20 guided missile corvettes might be ordered afterall you will have to replace these old ones...They can be shared by both GRSE and MDL...
Veer-class missile boat