We can easily build up a fleet of 44 submarines by 2025 and a fleet of 50+ boats by 2035. We need to be pragmatic and act today to fill immediate goals rather than wait to select an underwater wunderwaffe that may take more time to come than we may have !
My plan is simply to extend the scorpenes line to ten boats while buying 20 kilos off the shelf by scrapping P75I. While simultaneously upgrading eight older kilos. We can continue on a 15 yr plan to develop our SSK from this year.this SSK should be ready for mass production by 2030 latest.
By 2025 our fleet should be at least 44 boats strong with
26-28 kilos
10 scorpenes
1-2 akula
4 Arihant
2 indigenous SSN
By 2035 we should have
20 kilos
10 scorpenes
6 indigenous SSN
4 Arihant
4 Arihant follow on class SSBN
6-8 Indigenous SSN
6 Indigenous SSK
I.e. 56 submarines!
In our overtly zealous pursuit of gold plated greatness we forget that numbers are often the great leveller.
Sir, What u have said i think is a very good idea…
But what i think is why to go to older kilos???
What you said about scorpene is to go for additional 4 of them which means approx additional 2billion$.
So if we add it to P75I it makes total of 10$ billion.
I think instead of 4 go to 6 further scorpene subs which will cost another 3billion$.
So we will be left with 7billion.
Instead of moving to older kilos what if we get into amur class subs??
It has 2 versions buy both of them 7…7each.
It gives us 20 subs instead of 24 and i feel if we agree to get 4 subs less we would get next gen subs compared to old kilos.