A well known navy vet in twitter told me that p17 repeat order may happen sooner than ngd but no sooner than 2-3 years.
But forgetting all thatvwhat happened to ngmv and fss
Yeah P17AU seems likely in the next 2-4 years considering this is from MDL’s CMD himself (that said no DAC sanction exists for them as of now and that’s a painfully slow process in itself)
IN really is a complete mystery to me but then all 3 services have the same slow moving car crash tendencies. IA has moved nowhere on FRCV,FICV, towed arty etc, IAF on MRFA, IMRH etc
but IN really is letting these things stack up
FSS
NGC
NGF
NGD
NGMV
FSS
SSK
LHD/LPD
IAC-2
NMRH
NUH
Minesweepers
(p75A)
Beyond 2026-7 what large vessels (over 4,000 tons) will they have in production? None of the above that’s for sure. After P17A (and 11356 kind of) they’ve completely given up
(yes they get the smallest CAPEX of the 3 services I know the standard excuses)