abingdonboy
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They had better order P17AU/Bs whilst these lines are still purring. The reason there’s an inordinate delay and cost escalation every time with these new classes is there is always a huge gap between worksFinally we are seeing a good level of modular construction at MDL and GRSE. Launched in 2 years and 5 months and decent work on superstructure already completed.
Here was INS Vishakapatnam launch within 1.5 years.
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Just the plain old Hull. Ended up taking 6.5 years more till commissioning from launch.
Now hopefully we will see Nilgiri Class ships (except the first and second one) being commissioned within 3-4 years at most, from launch date.
IAC-1/P75 successors will effectively be starting from scratch. Production lines are not something you can turn on and off and the more complex the product the more true this is, the scale that the IN orders (3-4 ships at a time, only recently 6-7) coupled with the delays in clearing new projects is squandering any expertise that might get built up