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Speaking of the Indian Navy, its first impression is that it is extremely strange. The "glorious deeds" of spending more than two billion US dollars to buy an aircraft carrier that the Russians did not want have long been rotten, and will not be repeated here. In addition, people have done a lot of cattle things that make the world stunned, they did not have nuclear submarines to rent Russian "Akula" class attack nuclear submarines to fill the façade, as a result, this nuclear submarine renamed "Chakra-II" was completely damaged by the Indians, and its poor maintenance made Russian engineers cry out. In addition, people have also imaginatively created a world record for the shortest interval between drone crashes, coupled with the fact that the shipyard toilets some time ago almost hit the aircraft carrier due to excessive accumulation of feces, in short, the Indian Navy is a strange army born of strange peoples.
(Chakra-II nuclear submarine)
In 2009, the Indian Navy began the plan to build the P-17A stealth frigate, which is an upgraded version of the P-17 frigate, which has a total length of 149 meters, a hull width of 17.8 meters, and a full load displacement of 6700 tons, which is close to the level of China's Type 052D destroyer.
(P-17A stealth frigate)
In terms of powertrain, the P-17A has two LM2500 naval gas turbines and two diesel engines, which brings its maximum speed to 28 knots. In addition, the P-17A also has an integrated mast and four advanced active phased arrays in all directions, and is equipped with the "Barak-8" air defense missile produced by Israel Aerospace corporation and the "BrahMos" supersonic anti-ship missile jointly developed by Russia and India, which theoretically has a considerable combat effectiveness.
(P-17 frigate NO. 2 is undergoing sea trials)
However, the P-17A also inherits the consistent good tradition of Indians, first of all, procrastination, P-17A plans a total of seven ships, when the plan was launched, people optimistically estimated that these seven ships can be in service until 2021, and the first one was just laid in December last year. The P-17A is arguably India's most expensive domestic warship ever built, costing an average of $1.05 billion per vessel! According to statistics, almost half of the production cost of each P-17A has to be taken by foreign parts suppliers, from power systems to ship-based weapons, there is almost no pure Indian domestic goods!
(P-17A under construction during gantry crane collapse)
Recently, however, the ship, which the Indian Navy had high hopes for, went awry in its construction, and was planned to be located in The Garden, India's famous city of Kolkata. Ritchie Shipyard was tasked with the construction of three P-17As, but more than half a month ago, on April 17, a 250-ton gantry crane on the head of a P-17A frigate under construction in the shipyard collapsed without warning, directly hitting a P-17A frigate under construction, and the shipyard, who was afraid of responsibility, had the audacity to suppress the matter without authorization, and it was not exposed until May 1st! In this way, the P-17A that has just been on the right track will undoubtedly have to be torn down and restarted, and in theory, the first P-17A in 2023 can be delivered, according to this situation, it is not known to be dragged to the Year of the Monkey! But then again, in order to build an aircraft carrier, India imported from the United Kingdom a second-hand manufactured 1,000-ton gantry crane that had built a British aircraft carrier, and if india had contracted all the gantry cranes to be made in China, there would probably not have been such a low-level exaggerated accident, right? If the thinking is more expanded, contracting these warships to Be manufactured in China is probably much faster and saves much more money than India itself (please support the various original articles and physical books of the Yipinwen team, independent professional has a kind of material)