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    P-18/Next Generation Destroyer class (NGD)

    Yeah but MDL itself has multiple lines & they specialize in Destroyers & Frigates. Building capacity in an additional shipyard when the orderbook is expected to remain small is baffling.
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    P-18/Next Generation Destroyer class (NGD)

    Wonder about the wisdom which dictated that the 2 Talwar class ships be manufactured in GSL instead of MDL/GRSE, would have kept the lines running. What's the point of skilling another shipyard in Frigate-making if the orders sizes are expected to remain small? Also, MoD has now forgotten...
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    P-18/Next Generation Destroyer class (NGD)

    100%, Navy is the sword arm of any "global power". >The govt, IN, shipyards all are ensuring that we will be doing this RR perpetually. >Govt has still not made a non-lapsable fund for defense which IN can tap into for warship construction and 0 push to private shipyards, private shipyards...
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    P-18/Next Generation Destroyer class (NGD)

    So if the contract is signed by 2027-28, add at-least 3 years before the first keel is laid and then another 6-7 years before the first ship is commissioned. So by 2038 we will surely have the first P18 commissioned. Hum sab buddhe ho jayenge tab tak. Also by then, Kolkata class would be near...
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