Steel cutting ceremony of 2nd Milgem Corvette held at KS&EW - June 2020

[Tamiyah]

What different? It has 16 VLS

The radomes and other antennas stuff seemed different from Turkish MILGEM.

 

[Yasser76]

China has production lines which keeping chugging out ships one after another so no comparison to our Jinnah Class frigate in terms of cost or production time. Also these ships are not Ada class corvettes but custom design which has not gone into production even for turkey. New designs take time to get into production and once production line gets established it become cheaper and production time smaller. Pakistan is getting design rights for Jinnah class so we will not be stopping at the end of fourth ship. In fact as mentioned several times on PDF fourth Jinnah class will form basis for our next gen frigates.

Interesting, Turks are making the Istanbul class frigate the basis of their TF-2000 Air Defence destroyer, very feasable PN going down similar route where we make Jinnah the basis of a new series of air defence destroyers

 

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Interesting, Turks are making the Istanbul class frigate the basis of their TF-2000 Air Defence destroyer, very feasable PN going down similar route where we make Jinnah the basis of a new series of air defence destroyers

Yes, I suspect both navies will share similar designs going forward.

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

The current design of vessel is different than that of initially released image of J-class.
The super structure design is different, AShM canisters are different, VLS modules layout is different, SAT-COM and other antennas are different.
This is creating a new confusion. Are both designs official? Or the first image was more a CGI than an actual design?
Or, the one shown now is Pakistan's indigenously designed 4th ship? Or the ships produced in Pakistan and ships produced in Turkey will have different layouts?

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It is likely a situation of them not releasing the actual illustration until now. Didn't the Turkish brothers say the first illustration was just a Photoshop and that the actual ship can't look like Ada with VLS?

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

Yes, I suspect both navies will share similar designs going forward.

Cool. We are going to have destroyers

 

[Imran Khan]

best of luck hope we will have any local program in future

 

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[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

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I'd be happy if this was actually MILGEM-J #4, but I hope it isn't. If this is what they're pulling off for the first three ships, then the chances of the 4th ship being an I-Class variant are looking good.

 

[khanasifm]

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Yj-18 type ssm surface as well anti ship capable , do not see hq-16 guidance radar here

question 054a/p Vls is capable to launch Sam plus anti sub Asroc so will these ship also carry Asroc , 4 Asroc and 12 ssm or a combination

guessing
https://www.navyrecognition.com/ind...marine-rocket-asroc-emerges-out-of-china.html

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Since Pak’s one and only enemy is India, time isn’t a factor at all!!! It took them a thousand years to get out of the shock of the Muslim conquests!! With the recent Chinese “not sparing the rod”, it’ll take long time for them to get out of this shock....

*No USSR this time to propel them into a conflict. And, the USA has entered into an era of turmoils, a typical reminiscence of the death pangs suffered by the Super Powers

 

[Unite & Defend]

Timelines: Under promise and overachieve.

Something I do at work all the time, especially at the project initiation phase.

 

[Tipu7]

I'd be happy if this was actually MILGEM-J #4, but I hope it isn't. If this is what they're pulling off for the first three ships, then the chances of the 4th ship being an I-Class variant are looking good.

Interestingly, Navy is calling these ships as Milgem and designating them as Corvettes. This leads to assumption that the 4th Ship will be Jinnah Class frigate and will be a very different project inspired from I-Class with domestic modifications.
Henceforth, we are looking at 3 Milgum and 1 J-class. And then the J- class will be produced further once the first ship will deliver the requisite results.

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

Interestingly, Navy is calling these ships as Milgem and designating them as Corvettes. This leads to assumption that the 4th Ship will be Jinnah Class frigate and will be a very different project inspired from I-Class with domestic modifications.
Henceforth, we are looking at 3 Milgum and 1 J-class. And then the J- class will be produced further once the first ship will deliver the requisite results.

One other note. Awful lot of investment went into the corvettes too, and they're pretty good ships in their own right. It makes me wonder, if we'll see more of the corvettes as well, in addition to the frigates (especially if expectations regarding the frigates go into long-range SAMs, etc).

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

long-range SAMs

You mean HHQ 9s?

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

You mean HHQ 9s?

It depends on what's available in 2023-2025. So, HQ-9 or Aster-30.