Some news about the 8 Qing submarines to be delivered to Pakistan

[Eagle_storm]

its true.
i heard it in 2016.
GOOD.

 

[hassamun]

Why not just build all 8 in Pakistan?

Because they would take longer to produce...some of our engineers shall be in China to ensure technology transfer...

 

[Shane]

Why not just build all 8 in Pakistan?

Because they know what's the best practice in such a specialized endeavour.

Building Agosta with French input does not mean we can do the same from get go in case of Chinese vessels too.

It shall be a step by step process to both expedite delivery as well as streamline the process.

 

[Zarvan]

The figure of $4-5 bn is too high for 8 submarines. Does this deal include anything else like type 054a frigates? It has been speculated that this deal includes 4-6 frigates also which if added makes sense in $4-5 bn figure

Few things are not adding up to me I am also confused

 

[khanasifm]

First sale to Thiland for 3 Chinese 041 is about 390 million per sub plus weapons so rounding to 400 x 8 plus technology transfer cost plus upgrade in ship yard plus training at least 4 billion total it may be more due to loan with interest of another billion i.e. 5 billion