CGI of the Project-15A
Posted on 03/16/2009 9:14:41 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Govt approves Navy plans for four new warships
New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) The government has approved building of four new destroyer warships to bolster the Navy's strength.
The follow-on orders for the new destroyers would be placed with Mumbai-based Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL) soon, top Navy sources said here today.
"The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has last month given in-principle approval to the Navy's proposal for construction of four new Kolkata Class destroyers," sources said.
Codenamed "Project 15B", the new warships would be built after the MDL completed construction of the first three destroyers of the Kolkata Class under "Project 15A".
To be built with advanced stealth features, the four new warships will have land attack capabilities and would be fully indigenous.
"In all, the Navy has would have seven Kolkata Class destroyers," sources noted.
Currently, the Navy has three Delhi Class destroyers in its service and the Kolkata Class destroyers are expected to join the Navy one each every year beginning with 2010.
The MDL had begun construction of the Kolkata class ships beginning September 2003. PTI
CGI of the Project-15A
A “Vindaloo” class ship would be really cool!
I know that India has a ship dismantlement industry, I didn’t know they have a highly developed shipbuilding industry.
I wonder if they will outsource their shipbuiilding to the US like we send everything their way?
you mean really hot!!
well, no, the US outsources it’s services to India, it outsources it cheap manufacturing to CHina and more expensive manufacturing (electronics, cars etc) to Germany and Japan and South Korea.
But they won’t outsource their shipbuilding to the US — haven’t you read the latest? That Obama has stopped GE from supplying engines to India’s ships (this ignoring the fact that the same engines are used by China and also by myriad cruise ships) — this is ticking the Indian navy off (they had just tried out GE after years of not buying American because they feared sanctions would cut off supplies and here the mighty O goes and gives proof to their fears)
You took me too seriously. A lame attempt at being humorous.
no, it was funny, it’s just so irritating that the great O shoots GE in the foot and by extension destroys Boeing, Lockheed etc. chances of getting india’s multi-billion $$ arms sales
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