Rahul Singh
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You forgot to mention Project ATV (INS Arihant), Vikrant-class Carrier (Project 71), Vishakhapatnam-class Destroyers(Project 15B), Kamorta-class corvettes (Project 28), Varunshashtra HWT etc.Unfortunately Indian projects near the end are numerous.
Tejas is near the end until.... 8/10 years?
Kaveri ....
Arjun....
HTT40....
Indian people. You are peacefull.
But those are just facts.
I'm sorry. I have absolutely nothing against India and
You know the list is very long and comes with a difference. Which is these are Naval projects, unlike those you mentioned; which are not.
Interestingly all of them are about to be inducted. Do check for their status.
Now add to mentioned fact another; DRDO AIP is a joint project with Navy. I leave this just to that
Rafale deal was closed like one would close Pandora box.About P75I or another batch of Scorpene.... have you seen that no more people or newspaper talk about the famous leaks.
Remember Rafale was supposed to be eliminated in a early stage of MMRCA. To emerge as L1 some years after. And now ordered.
France was awarded just enough to compensate for its time. IAF bought bare minimum to make some use of this purchase and not just see as a burden on it logistic.
As far as P-75I is concerned. Well, you need to be aware of a fact that both P-75 and P-75I are just first and the second phase of Indian Navy's 30-year year submarine plan which has three phases in total. And last but most important phase of it calls for construction of 12 SSK based on indigenous design. This design is expected to carry best features both P-75 and P-75I and one prerequisite before this indigenous design goes into production is two fully functional submarine building lines.
Now with the production of first Kalvari class submarine out from line, the first phase is complete. With second phase which is P-75I requirements like second line and a new design needs to be fuilfilled. A further order or repeat order of more Scorpenes to Mazhgaon docks Ltd. does not fulfil those. So no, highly unlikely there will a repeat order.