The story is not ending here. French must've got some insider news. They hardly pull back from big defence deals. Expect something big. https://t.co/I8Ei9vUgiP
— _Tej_ (@Tej_Intel) April 29, 2022
S80 of Spain has considerable amount of American Items. I am not sure about its CMS. But is there may arise a situation where they refuse to allow us to modify the CMS to fire under development SLCM, then pretty much Spain is also out.
The Spanish certainly can't make it, that leaves the South Koreans which would make the contract a single source at best.
The SSN Barracuda is also in the water and is less expensive than the short fin Barracuda.
A tender for SSN? It's G2G between Strategic Partners.
Good riddance i would say. Scorpene leaks has already erroded french credibility in technology they dont themselves use. Europeans i/c russia cant be trusted in that sphere as per past experience.
No one makes better SSKs than NG or TKMS. And we depend on them. It's not a good thing to happen.
Just a myth. Our navy worked hard and got way out to locate Pak agosta (NG tech) even when they were hiding in its birth. Kilos despite being very old still work wonderful. Just because they themselves dont use it french took it too lightly to let scorpene secrets leak. It is a kind of backstab. No foreign country is reliable for such tech. This may lead to indigenous efforts which is absolute necessity at this point. If we can do it for SSNs, We can do it for SSKs for sure. Japs did it there way.
Reports say it has 50% availability. Scorpene has 66.67% mission capability rate.
We paid mad for 10 years of lease then and are paying 3 billion USD for another 10 years of lease.
It was luck that our extremely limited space Surveillance was where when it spotted it. If not , we do not have capability to monitor just 3 Agosta 90Bs simultaneously.
My friend no use even if scorpenes are available 100% if they could be easily detected. Its tech has bedn compromised. It seems u are unawre of scorpene leaks.
so naive if you think subs can be found out just by luck. It doesnt happen in practical world.
A simple thing like hull of Minesweeper didn't work out when we found that original IPR of tech claimed domestic by South Korea was held by Italy actually.
100 to 120 db signature encompasses 99% modern operating Diesel Submarines. Kilos are more noisy.
Do you realise that dockyard of Karachi doesn't have sheds?
The Sonar suite of Scorpene is 20 years old but is a generation ahead of our own Sonar suite developed 10 years .
My friend they are still the black holes. Its not just about the amount of signature in case of boats whether surfaced or submerged. Its also about the particular signature they make. It is what the enemy is really after.
We detected it ourselves without any help from US or any other country. Nobody will help us in such missions. And we wont ask anybody bcoz it will reveal our mission objectives. It is really our decades of efforts.
