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Production clearance is given by MoD, not IA. MoD is yet to green light QRSAM for production. VL-SRSAM is surface launched Astra Mk1, and Astra Mk1 has had its fair share of negative publicity in the past, recently some IAF official said DRDO should reduce its weight by 50kg as the current 154kg...

I call that BS, that article was nothing more than a plain hitjob, QRSAM has cleared all its user trials with the Indian Army and orders for the system will be placed in this year itself. These are not my sources, this is from DDR

The delay in freezing certain parameters indicate that only, otherwise Nilgiri is supposed to have entered sea trials by now

I mean MDL cannot do much when they are asked to cut open a completed hull juat coz the Navy woke up one fine day and thought lets integrate VL-SRSAM on our under construction Nilgiri class frigates

They aren't, LoL, Navy's capital outlay for 2022-23 was Rs.51,837 crore, marginally behind IAF's Rs.55,587 crore and way ahead of Army's 35,515 crore.

I guess 5 ships are planned under NGF

Progress has been pretty rapid on the INS Nilgiri which is in its outfitting phase at MDL, progress on INS Himgiri has been comparatively slower at GRSE. MDL built P17A frigates seem to be on track for their respective commissioning dates

A repeat order of 24 additional MH-60 Romeos must be placed and then the Indian Navy should largely be concentrating on the IMRH project which it recently became a part of. Those 16 ASW shallow water craft should be enough to take care of coastal ASW activities. As discussed previously in the...

Cochin shipyard will be building 6 missile boats at a cost of Rs.10,000 crore

Csn you please explain pathetic in this context. From what I see, In the next 4-5 years, Indian Navy will have inducted: 1 aircraft carrier 4 destroyers 11 frigates 3 SSK 2 SSBN 16 ASW shallow water craft Atleast 6 more P8I Neptune 6 NG missile boats

Hopefully what you are saying comes out to be true in the near future. We have the tech, now its all about numbers.

40 VLS( 8 Brahmos + 32 Barak 8) is good enough for now, expect it to be retrofitted with 16-32 VL-SRSAM modules when it goes in for its mid life refit.

When INS Nilgiri, the lead boat of the class was launched by MDL back in September 2019, you can clearly see that the superstructure was there. INS Himgiri is being built by GRSE, and it was launched without the superstructure in place, so I guess its more of a shipyard problem and not the...

All the follow on classes of the Indian DDG, frigates, corvettes shpuld not stop construction and move onto the next class by constructing only 3-4 ships of each class. It should be mandated that atleast 8-10 ships of each class are built before moving onto the next class. Improvements can be...