Is Indian Navy building improved kamorta class Corvettes?
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Last Kamorta-class - Kavaratti ready for sea trials. Judging by previous ship trial the duration should be small.
Is Indian Navy building improved kamorta class Corvettes?
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Last Kamorta-class - Kavaratti ready for sea trials. Judging by previous ship trial the duration should be small.
These 4 corvettes were Project28. Now that they're completed, it's planned to move further ahead under Project 28A, like other Indian ship's series.Is Indian Navy building improved kamorta class Corvettes?
Yes... one of my friends did vocational training at garden reach in 2016. He saw half-built INS Kavaratti structure lying there. Work was stopped because some subsystems had not been available or developed yet.The schedule and delivery times are weird and frightening. Did any new report etc cover such a huge build period.
Long back I heard it was due to design modifications after the first ship was delivered.
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There was dithering about waiting for certain items like SR-SAM and the Humsa.The schedule and delivery times are weird and frightening. Did any new report etc cover such a huge build period.
Long back I heard it was due to design modifications after the first ship was delivered.
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I think that after Kangnam fiasco, only way out is Kockums. Kangnam themselves sell unlicensed Lerici class derivatives of MCMVs manufactured by Intermarine. So ToT will always be an issue.There was dithering about waiting for certain items like SR-SAM and the Humsa.
Also the last 2 vessels were subject to experimentation with CFRP panels in the superstructure.
Expect follow up class to have more CFRP as IN has been quite pleased with the results and GRSE has actually got the hang of it via ToT from Kokums
New mine hunters also being planned for CFRP hulls.
So they took more than 8 years to build a small 3300 tons warship with almost no weapons..GRSE set to deliver ASW corvette INS Kavaratti to Navy soon
Defence PSU Garden Reach Shibuilders and Engineers (GRSE) is set to deliver anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette INS Kavaratti to the Navy soon.
Adding to Indian Navy's firepower, Defence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) is set to deliver anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette INS Kavaratti to the Navy soon, its Chairman-cum-Managing Director Rear Admiral V K Saxena said.
'Kavaratti' is the last of the four Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes built by the GRSE for the Indian Navy under Project P28, he said.
"All trials of the ship have been successfully completed, and we plan to deliver it by the end of this month," Saxena told PTI here.
'Kavaratti' will be the 104th ship to be constructed and delivered by the GRSE, he said.
With a displacement of 3,300 tonnes, the ship has a carbon composite superstructure, which has been flawlessly integrated with the steel hull through technology developed by the GRSE.
"The carbon composite superstructure provides advangate of a lower weight of the warship, thus increasing its stability, manoeuvrability and faster acceleration," Saxena said.
The new technology will mean that the warship, which has 90 per cent indigenous components, will also require lower maintenance, he said.
The ship is equipped to fight in nuclear, chemical and biological warfare conditions and its weapons and sensors suite is predominantly indigenous, according to Defence sources.
The first of the four ASW stealth corvettes under Project P28 - 'Kamorta', was delivered to the Navy in July 2014, 'Kadmatt' was delivered in November, 2015 and 'Kiltan' was delivered in October 2017, a GRSE official said.
All these four corvettes under the project are named after islands in the Lakshadweep archipelago in the Arabian Sea, he said.
The GRSE currently has a strong order book position of around Rs 27,400 crore under which there are a total of 19 warships at various stages of construction under six projects that are underway, the official said.
Of these, five projects are of the Indian Navy and one is of the Indian Coast Guard.
The Defence PSU has delivered five warships to Indian Navy in last 10 months, between March 2019 and December 2019, he said.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/asw-corvette-ins-kavaratti-1640511-2020-01-27
That's what happens if govt can't pay for subsystems... The structure was lying at Garden reach from atleast 2016, could be even earlier.So they took more than 8 years to build a small 3300 tons warship with almost no weapons..
Niceeee!
Oh no!!!! not again "isn't komarta under powered debate".That's what happens if govt can't pay for subsystems... The structure was lying at Garden reach from atleast 2016, could be even earlier.
And about weapons @porky_kicker @Chinmoy @Indx TechStyle; the Kamorta class is 3300t & has only a gun & CIWS with ASW torpedoes & RBU-6000 (not even towed-areay sonar). That with about 6000km range.
But the Saryu class OPV are 2200t with the gun & CIWS, but has 11000km range. So why not use the OPV base with some modifications?
I'm not implying Kamorta is underpowered... I'm saying one of our 2200t OPV has 11000km range & 3300t Corvette has 6000km range.TheKamorta would offer the following performance enhancements over the Arnala class.
- Thrice the displacement, resulting in more space for weapons and sensors
- Provision of hangar and helipad for an ASW helicopter
- Advanced radars and sonars
- Long endurance, enabling it to operate in blue water
I think that range is on slow speed and kamorta range is at its full speed..You didn't get what I said.
I'm not implying Kamorta is underpowered... I'm saying one of our 2200t OPV has 11000km range & 3300t Corvette has 6000km range.
But the Gun & CIWS & hanger for 1 chopper in both being common, Kamorta only has some ASW torpedoes & rockets, no VLS.
So much for "big size", "long range".
If there's not a big difference of payload then why not use a modified version, with the sensors & composites added, of the much Much MUCH longer ranged platform (same speed, same power of 15000kW)!?
That is the million dollar question... Literally.What other projects has GRSE signed up for after the corvettes?
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