Posted on 02/18/2010 7:14:36 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Indian Navy will regain its underwater warfare nuclear capability in the next 60-days with the Russians assuring that the Akula-II class attack submarine the Nerpa would be delivered by mid-May. The assurance that the nuclear submarine would be delivered "strictly on schedule" was given by top Russian shipbuilding officials to the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is to visit New Delhi on a state visit next month. Nerpa has been handed over to the Russian Navy for its sea trials.
"The 518th project, the Nerpa submarine is currently completing trials in the Pacific basin. We believe that we will be able to deliver it on time, according to agreed schedule," Chief of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Roman Trotsenko told Putin at today's meeting. The Nerpa would be provided to the Indian Navy on 10 year lease and is scheduled to touch the Indian coast some time in May under its rechristened name of INS Chakra.
The Akula-II class Nerpa submarine is one of the Russia's most modern, largest and quietest submarines armed with sophisticated missiles. The deep sea warfare vessel was hit by an accident in November 2008 while on trial in the Sea of Japan due to release of toxic Freon from its fire-suppression system. In May 2009 Putin had personally flown to Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East to inspect the defence shipyard and had ordered to complete the project by December
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And US subs have had to have rework done before ever being launched as well........but of course that was not lousy engineers, was it?
I wonder what the Swedes’ are paying sailors to man that ship.
Only the brave and the stupid.
I guess if they guaranteed that my family would be set for life maybe i’d do a 6 month tour.
Whoops, Meant the Ausies.
Got a little confused there...
Aussie
Time for bed.
Sure, but the engineering is the totality of the work. You may embrace Russian garbage, not me.
I wonder if we’ll be selling more P-3s to Pakistan?
This is factually untrue, actually, though part of the problem is that the RAN has a manpower shortage.
You can assume all Russian hardware is garbage, I do not.
You have trouble with english, eh comrade? Where did I say “ all Russian hardware is garbage”?
OTOH, the Akula Class is plagued with garbage.
Nice sidestep on US subs having similar episodes.........dismissed.........
What US sub took 15 years to get out of the shipyard dock? What modern US sub had more than HALF of it’s initial run out of service in the first two decades?
>In 2008 there was an accident of a Nerpa class submarine that killed 20 people
In the case of incident described above it’s was sailor’s fatal error (the human factor), not technology failure
Of course wrapping around the Russian flag as usual.
The problem was not with the Akulas, but the rather the fact that the Russian government had no money to spend on any equipment. Most Russian ships, aircraft and tanks took years to build back in the 1990s. While it took almost 10 years for the Russian navy to get a Neutrashimmy class frigate and a handful of SU-27s and 32, the Chinese and Indian navies got Russian industries to deliver their ships in about 3-4 years in addition to hundreds of SU-27/30s.
Some Australian newspapers say that only two out of the six Collins class boats are available for service.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/lessons-from-the-collins-class/story-e6frg71x-1225823755902
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2802445.htm
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