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George1 wrote:So last 3 frigates go to Indian Navy
Admiral Butakov, Admiral Istomin will be built in Yantar
And Admiral Kornilov in India
Kimppis wrote:So they will sell those 3 to India after all? So much for hoping that wasn't the case. WTF are they doing? Or maybe I misunderstood? 4 Gorshkovs and 3 Grigoroviches by 2025?.............
GarryB wrote:Lets face it, these are new build ships but at the end of the day these are Krivak IVs... and are not the new modular designs they have been working on.
In the same sense if they had some kilos that have been delayed because they need some important parts from the Ukraine and are waiting for the same parts to be Russian made and someone else wanted them why not sell them and use the money and freed up slipway space to make some Ladas or Kalinas.... new designs hopefully devoid out Ukrainian components... strings...
the real reason they bought them was because they should have been in service by now... they were the quick fix... if they can't get the engines until 2019 or 2020 then they might as well forgo the quick fix and spend money on the better product that will also take longer...
But Russia needs them the most...Isos wrote:Lot of countries could be interested by those frigates actually. Egypt, Iran, Saoudi arabia, Algeria, asian countries ...
KomissarBojanchev wrote:I repeat once again: why, if the saturn gas turbines are ready, would yantar decide to sell the 3 frigates?
SeigSoloyvov wrote:KomissarBojanchev wrote:I repeat once again: why, if the saturn gas turbines are ready, would yantar decide to sell the 3 frigates?
Only possible excuse is IF this is true.
Is that they are producing the engines so slow, they would not have any engines ready for years which shocker Russian naval industry shows it's incompetence once more if that turns out to be true
It simply makes no sense if they have engines ready or can make them they would sell the hulls rather then complete them.
KomissarBojanchev wrote:I repeat once again: why, if the saturn gas turbines are ready, would yantar decide to sell the 3 frigates?
Isos wrote:KomissarBojanchev wrote:I repeat once again: why, if the saturn gas turbines are ready, would yantar decide to sell the 3 frigates?
Actually it depend on how gorshkov program goes. Grigorovich were made only for export in their version for india. When they saw that gorshkov were harder to build than expected they ordered some grigorovich.
With the engine issue grigorovich program is as slow as gorshkov one.
If they are sure to build more gorshkov quickly they will sell these frigates to buy gorshkovs. That was the original plan.
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