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Google "Project 15B Indiandefenceforum" It will link you to the Project 15B thread of Indiandefenceforum. (It hasnt been active for a while). Look in the second page for "Tender for the construction of P-15B model"

Just look under the Project 15B discussion . They have a link of the order book i.e all the subsytems they ordered.

To all our great pessimistic Indians. Kolkata Class is undoubtedly the most balanced and advanced Destroyer on the planet right now. The only reason is falls slightly short of the Chinese Type052D and S.Korean Sejong the Great is cause of its current limited number of SAMs. Otherwise in terms...

Mate, by 2025 , I see - -10 Destroyers .3 Delhi Class, 3 Kolkata Class and 4 Vishakapatnam Class. The 5 Rajput Class would be retired, possibly against the last 5 Project 17A Frigates. Thats 40+ years of active service. - 26 Frigates . 7 PRoject 17A , 3 Shivaliks, 3 Upgraded Talwars , The...

Everywhere it says that the Kolkata Class will have only 32 Barak 8s :rolleyes:

The second ship of the Kolkata Class was supposed to start Sea Trials earlier this July. There has been no updates since then. Can anyone who is assosiated with the Navy/MDL confirm this please?

Why are you always so rude with the Chinese? It totally kills the Spirit of the debate.:confused:

Simply because they hadnt been using Modular construction. On asking my relative, who is an ex-employee of GRSE, he told me that its extremely hard to do all kinds of outfitting in these compact Hulls after the ship is launched. Especially in these hot Indian summers, there have been cases of...

Sorry, my bad, I meant Kora Class.

Since people are putting up their wet dreams as to how the Indian Navy should look in the future.. Here's my 2 cents on this.. If we notice, we currently have a light(Kora Class) and a heavy(Kamorta Class) class of corvette . We also have a Light(Talwar Class) and Heavy(Shivalik Class)...

Barak 8 hasnt been fitted and will be fitted by next year, we know that. But yes, 64 SAMs. Thats the main point here! :thumb:

I thought we were looking at a Kolkata Vs Type 45 Comparision? And honestly, cant really say who's the "Best" at AAW role. Not the Kolkata offcourse, though its still pretty impressive. But there's the French/Italian Horizon Class and Chinese Type52c and Type052D Destroyers with longer range...

Kolkata Class can detect the same, except over 250 kms, so yes, Type 45's SAMPSON radar has more range. Overall the AAW of the Type 45 is somewhat better than Kolkata. The main advantages of Kolkata over Type 45 is having 16 X BrahMos - The world's fastest Anti-ship cruise missile with pinpoint...

India did consider joinin the GCS project , hoping it would make its own project cheaper, but as of now it has decided to go solo with its Future Project 17A Frigates, so the plan seems cancelled. And about Kolkata Class vs Type 45 Here's a quote from an Broadsword article " Project 15A will...

Wasnt really familiar with this quadpack concept, though heard the term before in military forums. But anyways, i cant find any source saying ESSM are quadpacked in 16 VLS....can you please provide me one? And I guess Heavy torpedos are better than Lighter ones? Right?

Oh come on.. Kolkata vs Hobart? 1. Design/Stealth - Considering Hobart Class are variants off Alvaro de Bazan Class, Kolkata's Design is superior and stealthy 2. Air defence as of now - AEGIS is comparable to MF-Star. Hobart will carry 48 missiles(ESSM and RIM) . Kolkata ..64, either...

Assume the Ship actually survived such a battle and exhausted say about 20-30 of its SAMs. At that point another 32 would come in handy, especially if the ship has a longer mission/operation. But my question is, do other ships too have such facilities? of carrying the SAMs on their ships and...

An article in TOI from MDL too mentioned only about "LR SAMs".

They will or might. Right now there are no immidiate plans. Type 45 does not have Torpedo tubes either.

Wasnt Kolkata Class supposed to have 64 SAMs?