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No recent news. Hopefully we will soon here about who won the bid soon enough.

Batch size is increasing. Project 17 Shivalik were just 3 boats. Follow on Nilgiri 17A class has 7 boats. Next gen frigate class may have two dozen boats . Similarly kamorta class p28a was 4 boats. Follow on next gen Corvettes will be 7 boat batch. Delhi and Kolkata class were 3 each but...

It is inevitable that more frigates will be build. Albeit with incorporating latest technology in batches . Next batch should be project 17B. Almost same Design and displacement but with more sophisticated latest weaponary and sensors.

Won't include chakra into that as how do you decide price of something which nobody else is selling !! Also akula class submarine (13000ton ) could actually cost 2-3 billion USD to build in today rate. On top of that we are substituting internals from Russian to India except for nuke reactor...

Didn't know that . That's the most important part of discussion. Do you have any link for this. Having multiple suppliers preempt the sections. As sanctions only mean surrendering market to other suppliers. But you are right that we should take ipr and build copy of russian engine. But I...

So Chinese have an alternative in case Western supplies dries up or sanctions are piled. That was my original argument .

Stealth subsonic is already in works in form of rechristened nirbhay program. Hypersonic is also in works with hdstv and also in jv with Russia for bramhos 2. Bramhos meanwhile is operational now and in Mass production and neither Chinese nor porky have any defenese against it. So all is fine.

Ok and what powers Chinese destroyers and latest cruiser type 055??

Unless we have an indegenious propulsion for navy warships we can't be fully dependent on West which might sanction us for dubious reasons. So Russian Western both propulsion will be maintained untill indegenious marine engine comes about.