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Because the actual budget has never been publicly declared. The tender is still only at Technical RFI stage so no commercial information has been sought. Presstitues happily throw around random numbers

Indeed would be a nice solution. However, as is put front and center in the RFQ requirements: - All submissions MUST be an existing design ALREADY built and in service somewhere. So all these speculative paper proposals like what you mention will not qualify. In fact, looking around the world...

That will be a LOOOOOONG wait since the Australians still haven't signed an actual production contract. Still the issue with VLS remains since neither Shortfin or Suffren have a VLS module (although SMX Ocean concept planned for it)

Type 218 is a custom design for Singapore which has been designed in collaboration with ST Engineering. It is NOT available for sale to other customers. The HDW proposal for P75i is called Type 216 which currently only exists on paper hence will be disqualified under the RFQ conditions. If they...

A-26 was never going to qualify. Neither will Shortfin Baracudda or Type 216. One of the big glaring conditions of the RFQ is that offered design MUST be in service somewhere in the world. Once again I do say this whole exercise is a waste of time

Arrey yaar...babus also like diversity for their evening entertainment on foreign junket trips. So many years they only had russian item maal, then new fashion of yehudi maal came, recent trend has been french maal...latest trend them seem to have realised korean maal is also quite nice after a...

Let's hope at least that a decision is made soon. If it drags on any longer the process loses whatever meaning it has left. Whatever happens just hope there is no further controversy and mud slinging.

The intention was to encourage an existing private shipyard to enter into the military market which had until recently been restricted to PSU's. There are plenty of pvt shipbuilding companies in the country which have all stayed away from this contract due to its complexity and size. If you...

This is exactly why I call the entire exercise a circus. A company which has no shipbuilding facilities or experience is bidding for a premier naval programme What a farce

For the sub..whatever they chose is going to be a shitshow because of ASC (the local shipyard partner). They royally screwed up the Collins class and will royally screw up the Barracuda despite the crazy price tag. Ship building or any marine related industry in Oz is very very heavily...

That would require actual strategic planning and will..which our MoD has clearly shown no evidence of ever having. For now there are NO plans for further Scorpenes which means the Mazagaon Docks line will idle and waste away same as the Type 209 line did. For P-75i there is NO clause in the...

Lada class is a design failure. Russian Navy itself rejected it after 1 test hull and opted to continue with Kilo. Afterwards they have been trying to push it for export but no takers so far even though several Kilo have been sold in the same period. This VLS equipped version so far only...

If above news and highlighted specs are true then a few points : - Scorpene line at MDL is total waste of money and write off just like Type 209 before it. All the time and effort spent to build up the capability there being flushed down the drain - it will be at least post 2030 before 75i...

You speak of the 4 Ohio class boats converted to SSGN. You will notice that those had ALL their ballistic missiles removed and totally replaced with Tomahawks. Those 04 boats do not carry ANY nuclear payload in their current configuration. At the same time NONE of the remaining 14 Ohio class...

It is precisely because of the difficulty in identification that responsible countries follow certain protocols. These were established originally between the US and USSR during the start of the Cold War SSBN race to avoid potentially catastrophic misunderstandings. The practice of issuing...

In principle...DRDO has successfully validated Brahmos underwater VLS and the Arihant's tubes are modular to fit the K-4 or K-15 x 3 which can easily be swapped out for Brahmos x 3 or x 4 in future. Right now..it won't carry it as the role is different. No country allows its SSBN's to carry...

The SMX series are not meant for serious construction. DCNS comes out with a new SMX concept every year for showcasing its "vision" and design capabilities for the future. Most of the designs are not practical nor are they meant to be. Think of it like the concept car models that car makers put...

The Japanese categorically stated that the reason for transition to LIB instead of the Stirling AIP was two-fold: - Better sustained performance - Improved safety of the LIB option over the Stirling Now if they were planning to use commercial grade batteries (I laugh at this statement) then...

True that AIP equipped SSK's are quiet and have greater range than older battery equipped ones. However the point remains that price paid of AIP equipped subs is comparable to an SSN. And a modern SSK is not easy to build. Look at MDL's troubles with even a "simple" non-AIP Scorpene...a...

P-75i is a waste of time. We don't need so many SSK's anymore. Only Arabian Sea ops are suitable for SSK's due to shallow water. 9 SSK's based out of Mumbai + Karwar are more than sufficient to keep Porki "Navy" in check. Emerging challenge is deep-water operation in Bay of Bengal and beyond in...