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@Zarvan However, I feel that Jinnah class will be the further evolution of Milgem stopping at 4 ships only.
6-8 Type 054A
4 Milgem
8 Jinnah Class.
That would be something awesome.
Jinah class off course will come. No one is doubting that. What I am saying we would see more Milgem corvettes and more Type 54 A. I mean more than four.@Zarvan However, I feel that Jinnah class will be the further evolution of Milgem stopping at 4 ships only.
Jinah class off course will come. No one is doubting that. What I am saying we would see more Milgem corvettes and more Type 54 A. I mean more than four.
I doubt there will be more MILGEM or Type 054A. With 4 modified MILGEM and 4 054A the foreign frigate builds should be complete unless PN cannot produce enough Jinnah in a timely fashion. The entire point of acquiring the rights to Jinnah was to produce the needed frigates in house. Acquiring more Frigates from foreign suppliers (unless there is an urgent need to quickly add to the fleet) would be counterproductive. Future acquisitions from China or Turkey would be either heavy frigates (5000t range) or destroyer (6000-7000t range). If there is this would most likely include Type 054B (aka the 057) which is in the 5000t range or 052D destroyer in the 7500t range. My money would be on the 054B.
Ideally they need to figure out a way to get a quad packed missile for standard use across all platforms with VLS in PN. There are reports of their interest in CAMM-ER (40km + range but likely to be out to 80-90km ormmaybe more) and with good relations with Italy, it may yet be possible...although im not sure if UK could pose an issue there. Other options are the K-SAAM from SKorea but that may require Russian approval. There is also the G-40 missile in development from Turkey. If its development is successful it would be the easiest to acquire. CAMM-ER would be my choice.
These would enable more flexibility for all vessel, allowing 64 medium range missiles for MILGEM, up to 128 for 054A (but more likely 64 with the other 16 celks used for other weapson like CY-5 and or Babur or possibly 16 HQ-9.
On larger vessels it would allow for similar mix of weapons.
More Type 54 A and MILGEM depends on the size of Navy we want and do we want an aggressive Navy or not. So I am quite hopeful that both Type 54 A and MILGEM will get doubled and then will come Jinah class that too will be eight in total.I doubt there will be more MILGEM or Type 054A. With 4 modified MILGEM and 4 054A the foreign frigate builds should be complete unless PN cannot produce enough Jinnah in a timely fashion. The entire point of acquiring the rights to Jinnah was to produce the needed frigates in house. Acquiring more Frigates from foreign suppliers (unless there is an urgent need to quickly add to the fleet) would be counterproductive. Future acquisitions from China or Turkey would be either heavy frigates (5000t range) or destroyer (6000-7000t range). If there is this would most likely include Type 054B (aka the 057) which is in the 5000t range or 052D destroyer in the 7500t range. My money would be on the 054B.
Ideally they need to figure out a way to get a quad packed missile for standard use across all platforms with VLS in PN. There are reports of their interest in CAMM-ER (40km + range but likely to be out to 80-90km ormmaybe more) and with good relations with Italy, it may yet be possible...although im not sure if UK could pose an issue there. Other options are the K-SAAM from SKorea but that may require Russian approval. There is also the G-40 missile in development from Turkey. If its development is successful it would be the easiest to acquire. CAMM-ER would be my choice.
These would enable more flexibility for all vessel, allowing 64 medium range missiles for MILGEM, up to 128 for 054A (but more likely 64 with the other 16 celks used for other weapson like CY-5 and or Babur or possibly 16 HQ-9.
On larger vessels it would allow for similar mix of weapons.