aziqbal
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any word on the steel cutting for the second Istanbul class ?
I hope this programme doesn't become another Ada class fiasco where it takes 15 year from first cut to last commission
if launch is in 2019 the dry dock should get the first module for the second laid later in the year
I would have expected steel cut would have happened this summer and module construction underway
then the equivalent of keel laying to follow
Launches
F-515 in 2019
F-516 in 2021
F-517 in 2023
F-518 in 2025
followed by TF-2000
I hope this programme doesn't become another Ada class fiasco where it takes 15 year from first cut to last commission
if launch is in 2019 the dry dock should get the first module for the second laid later in the year
I would have expected steel cut would have happened this summer and module construction underway
then the equivalent of keel laying to follow
Launches
F-515 in 2019
F-516 in 2021
F-517 in 2023
F-518 in 2025
followed by TF-2000