nik wrote: Could you disseminate the post - which part was objectionable and which part was a rant? I did a cost analysis and provided source links to back it up - things are that obvious. Apart from the last 'brown skin comment' - I don't see why you want to summarily delete the whole post. UPDATE - Self deleted the Brown Skin Overhead rant ( 6 words out of 168 i.e under 5%)
Cost analysis? Diving up cost and unit numbers is a cost analysis to make the assertion that you made?
How about this:
- Do we know what 15,000 crore will get us? Do we get only the guns or do we get some ammunition as well as domestic manufacture of ammunition of these guns will take couple of years to materialize.
- 75% of guns will be manufactured in India. Have you factored in the point about Indian company having to establish greenfield manufacturing plant in India to produce these guns?
- How does OFB compare on the above point? An organization with sunk infrastructure cost which has already been recovered over donkey years.
- The Dhanush cost INR 14 Crore a piece and not INR 10 Crore as your calculation above
(As per this TOI Report:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 856813.cms).
- Compared to a 155/45 Caliber gun which is supposed to be 80% indigenous and being produced by an established organization, a latest 155/52 Cal gun produced in a new manufacturing plant and which would have element of royalty+foreign vendors, costing 30% more is hardly surprising.
Long story short - If a gun produced by OFB costs INR 14 Crore (and that too for a 155/45 Caliber), then rest assured, anything you buy from abroad which is the latest technology and which needs new manufacturing facility, will cost more.
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The questions you should be asking are these:
- Can GOI 'lease' OFB gun manufacturing facility to private party and help to keep the cost of manufacturing low?
- Per unit gun cost being quoted on internet for contenders for this requirement is ~USD 4.0-5.0 million; that is around INR 24-30 Crore per gun (but these numbers are basis very low order base and contracts which also covered ammunition sale). So, how are we going to get them guns for INR 18-20 Crore per piece?