Corvettes of Indian Navy : News and Discussions

Well they call the new class as absolute weapon intensive platforms compared to the previous gen. For mission specific, these are indeed well built.
 
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We need an order of 24 NGC to dominate Arabian sea and IOR chokepoints. Flood the ocean with these ships ... tail every single PLAN warship, nail somali pirates they even look at a merchants,.welcome every ship arriving at gwadar
 
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We need an order of 24 NGC to dominate Arabian sea and IOR chokepoints. Flood the ocean with these ships ... tail every single PLAN warship, nail somali pirates they even look at a merchants,.welcome every ship arriving at gwadar
We need Minesweepers first so that a ragtag LeT piggy doesn't choke all our trade with 1 floating IED.
 
what people on the internet were speculating to be the NGMV desgn:
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What it actually turned out to be:
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This tiny vessel costs US$210 million per unit. 6 ships for total cost of US$1.2 billion.
bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha............................................

Compare this to what you can get on international mkt:
Project 22350 / Admiral Gorshkov class:
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US$250 million
per unit
32 (4 × 8)3S14M VLS cells for Kalibr, Oniks, Tsircon or Otvet anti-submarine missiles
32 (4 × 8) Redut VLS cells for 9M96, 9M96M, 9M96D/9M96DM(M2) and/or quad-packed 9M100 surface-to-air missiles

bruh....compare this to P15B. A $250M frigate has double the firepower of IN's flagship destroyer which costs US$1.3 billion per unit.
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Gorshkov is cheap 'cause ruble has fallen to such an extent. When currency weakens, export prospects increase due to lowering of domestic costs. A Su-57 costs something like $25M today, at Russian MoD prices. A T-90M is less than $1M. A Yasen-M costs less than $500M. And so on.

That's also why FGFA development cost was so cheap. It fell from $5.5B in 2013 (35 rub to USD) to $3.7B in 2017 (65 rub) even though there was an increase in R&D cost by 50B rubles. The same deal today would only cost $2.4B.

So it's quite unfair to compare the two directly due to the sudden shock the Russian economy's experienced.
 
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KEEL LAYING OF SEVENTH SHIP (BY 529, MACHILIPATNAM) OF ASW SWC PROJECT AT CSL, KOCHI
Posted On: 29 JAN 2025 8:05PM by PIB Delhi


Keel Laying of the seventh ship (BY 529, Machilipatnam) of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) project was undertaken on 29 Jan 25 in the presence of RAdm Upal Kundu, Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command. Senior officials of the Indian Navy and CSL were also present for the ceremony. With almost all major and auxiliary equipment/ systems sourced from indigenous manufacturers, these ships exemplify the GoI Initiative of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat”. This milestone, in quick succession of the Keel Laying of the sixth ship in Dec 24 and Launching of the fourth and fifth ships at CSL in Sep 24, demonstrates the steadfast efforts of the Indian Shipyards to meet Indian Navy’s growing operational requirements.

Contract for building eight ASW SWC ships was awarded to Cochin Shipyard Limited by the Ministry of Defence on 30 Apr 19. The ships known as the ‘Mahe’ class, will be equipped with indigenously developed, state-of-the-art underwater sensors, and are envisaged to undertake anti-submarine operations in coastal waters as well as Low Intensity Maritime Operations (LIMO) and Mine Laying Operations.

The first ship of the project is planned to be delivered in early 2025. Besides enhancing Indian Navy’s Anti-Submarine Warfare capabilities, the high indigenous content on these ASW SWC ships is also generating large scale employment and capability enhancement of Indian Manufacturing Units.
 
Excellent find. It would be safe to say that the Navy has amortized the R&D cost of developing the MF-STAR mast & the Barak 8 program.

I see no RBU-6000s on that deck. Also, a flush foredeck & enclosed mooring deck like the Nilgiri class
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The foredeck has 2 VLM packages. Probably Barak 8 VLMs. There are inclined launchers amidship. The exhaust stack looks like a scaled down version of the one we saw on the Nilgiri class.

The secondary radar might be a BEL Revathi. So, we can expect VL-SRSAMs on this thing. If it had Brahmos than this would be equivalent to the Talwar class in firepower. Speaking of the Talwar class, the bridge design seems to be inspired from the Talwar class.

Good stuff.


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So, MF-STAR & Barak 8 combo is pretty much confirmed. Wonder if it is the full-sized MF-STAR or the smaller variant. Given the size of NGC, it should be the smaller one.

The render we saw shows 16 Barak-8 VLS tubes on the fore deck. I really hope the NGC gets the VL-SRSAM too. A 32 cell VLS of VL-SRSAM at the rear would be awesome.