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"No diamonds don't do porcelain work.". But if you have diamonds, will you be able to do porcelain work well?
In the eyes of the laughing drink, the Indian Calcutta Garden Ritchie Shipbuilding Engineering Company is a diamond drill - don't care about the size of the diamond, whether it is sharp or not, at least he has.
For shipyards that build warships, the so-called diamond drill is actually a gantry crane.
Gantry crane of Calcutta's Garden Ritchie Shipbuilding Company
In other words, this Gantry crane of Gardon Ritchie Shipbuilding Engineering Company is not a small object - it weighs 3,000 tons and can lift 250 tons of heavy objects, which is a must-have for naval ship manufacturing or civilian ship manufacturing! With this, the company undertook a contract for the construction of three P-17A frigates of the Indian Navy, worth up to Rs 20,000 crore, the largest order ever received by the company.
Indian Navy P-17 class frigate USS Shwarik
The P-17A-class frigates are ships that the Indian Navy hopes to upgrade on top of its P-17-class frigates. Compared to its P-17 class such as the "Shivarik", it is said to be more displacement and more stealthy.
The Indian military attaches particular importance to the P-17A
In terms of displacement, 6600 tons, has been close to the Chinese 052D destroyer, plus the claim to be equipped with 4 "Aegis" phased array radar, plus the "Barak-8" anti-aircraft missile and "Brahmos" supersonic anti-ship missile, this P-17A looks very powerful.
However, at this year's International Army and Navy Equipment Defense Exhibition (Defexpo 2018), while announcing the latest P-17A stealth frigate model, Indian military sources said that it is not yet known when the first P-17A will be completed.
The site of the gantry crane collapse
Originally, Garden Ritchie Shipbuilding Engineering undertook the construction of three P-17As, one of which was under construction. But in early May, Russia's "Talker" first disclosed that the Gantry crane collapsed at the Garden Ritchie Shipbuilding Company under construction of the P-17A, and the collapse time was in mid-April, because the wind was too strong and blew down.
As a result, the accident that occurred nearly half a month ago was revealed. It can be seen that the top management of the shipyard is deliberately concealing the accident.
Laughing drink analysis, although due to the collapse of the gantry crane, the shipyard lost hundreds of millions of dollars, but after all, the P-17A under construction was lucky not damaged, so the shipyard adhered to the attitude of hiding a day is a day.
After the accident was revealed, the Indian military was dumbfounded. The new gantry crane is said to take about 30 months from tender to installation and commissioning. It is not known whether it will affect the delivery time of the P-17A.
Another aspect worth mentioning is that, according to the Talker, the accident gantry crane was produced by Indians. This time, India can't blame others for its gibberish, right? In 2012, after the Indian sea test carrier caught fire, the blame was that it was using substandard Chinese refractory bricks. This time, we don't carry the pot!!!