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Construction of last P 15B destroyer began july last year. It should be near launch. Anyone has any info?

http://www.psuconnect.in/news/productio ... -mdl/16430
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Karthik S wrote:Construction of last P 15B destroyer began july last year. It should be near launch. Anyone has any info?
may have to wait for few more days.
MoD ( like all ministries ) will publish year end review - 2019 in pib website.
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr

NEW DELHI: Shore-based air operations are still limited by range and that is why it is too early to write off aircraft carriers as they continue to bear huge influence at sea, former Indian Navy Chief Sunil Lanba said on Tuesday.

"A carrier battle group is a composite group of ships (including the aircraft carrier and submarines)...it brings huge capability to bear influence
"There is a segment all over the world, especially of the air forces, which talks of the vulnerability of the aircraft carrier and (say that) shore-based air forces and aircraft can do what can be done. But they are limited by range,"
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jaysimha wrote:
Karthik S wrote:Construction of last P 15B destroyer began july last year. It should be near launch. Anyone has any info?
may have to wait for few more days.
MoD ( like all ministries ) will publish year end review - 2019 in pib website.

Thanks.
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I thought about the IN purchase of US made 5" naval guns while they used to often buy Italian Oto Melara owned by Finmeccanica.

I think this is a fallout of the Augusta bribery scandal where Italy stalled the investigation in many ways.
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ramana wrote:I thought about the IN purchase of US made 5" naval guns while they used to often buy Italian Oto Melara owned by Finmeccanica.

I think this is a fallout of the Augusta bribery scandal where Italy stalled the investigation in many ways.
It is not fallout to harm Italy for stalling , it is because of ban on Leonardo (parent company of Augusta and Oto) from bidding in military contacts, ban was renewed couple months ago.
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We're cutting our nose to spite our face. These days so much of amalgamations have taken place and in Europe old stand- alone entities have fallen , been swallowed up by larger fish.
AW is a case in Q, where strictly speaking only AW helos should be banned for alleged bribery anď corruption.If you extend the list to all the cos. in the group, we will be severely damaging ourselves.
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We have been making the OTO Melara 76 mm SRGM inhouse under license since 1995. It is one of the most successful naval gun designs since the 1960's.
As per Wiki, Iran reverse engineered the gun and started manufacturing its own copy in 2006.
The problem for us is that we do not learn anything from license production or ToT.

Over the last 25 years, we should have tried to reverse engineer the gun and make our own version with say 100mm rounds, in place of the 76 mm round.
=Perhaps the rate of fire, would have to be reduced, as the calibre is increased. However, they would have allowed us to develop the technology needed for developing naval guns of this type. As the need for a 5-inch gun was expressed since 2010, in place of the 3-inch OTO-mellara or the 4-inch Russian gun, we could have developed the same, if we had developed the technology and the building blocks required for this type of guns.

In our case, we just go and spend another $1 billion for 13 guns!!
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By the way, we can still produce the OTO-76 mm SRGM. Its just that for the new destroyers, the navy wants 5-inch guns, in place of the 3-inch OTO guns. It has got nothing to do with the sanctions on Finmeccanica.
For smaller frigates, we will continue to equip them with the 76mm SRGM.
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mody wrote:By the way, we can still produce the OTO-76 mm SRGM. Its just that for the new destroyers, the navy wants 5-inch guns, in place of the 3-inch OTO guns. It has got nothing to do with the sanctions on Finmeccanica.
For smaller frigates, we will continue to equip them with the 76mm SRGM.
Yes it is due to sanctions, existing License production is different from a new contract, Leonardo S.p.a or Finmeccanica cannot be part of any new contracts. Originally these vessels were to equipped with Oto 127 but the sanctions came in place before contract was finalized. I believe they were also supposed to supply RAN-40l for our vessels which I believe was also killed.
Unfortunately down the road this will affect our procurement of Oto SR once that deal expires if don’t remove them from blacklist.

Here is the link: https://m.economictimes.com/news/defenc ... 032525.cms
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John wrote:
mody wrote:By the way, we can still produce the OTO-76 mm SRGM. Its just that for the new destroyers, the navy wants 5-inch guns, in place of the 3-inch OTO guns. It has got nothing to do with the sanctions on Finmeccanica.
For smaller frigates, we will continue to equip them with the 76mm SRGM.
Yes it is due to sanctions, existing License production is different from a new contract, Leonardo S.p.a or Finmeccanica cannot be part of any new contracts. Originally these vessels were to equipped with Oto 127 but the sanctions came in place before contract was finalized. I believe they were also supposed to supply RAN-40l for our vessels which I believe was also killed.
Unfortunately down the road this will affect our procurement of Oto SR once that deal expires if don’t remove them from blacklist.

Here is the link: https://m.economictimes.com/news/defenc ... 032525.cms
The sanctions affect the OTObreda-127/64 gun. We were supposed to procure the same and maybe start license production of the guns. However, as I said before, the license production of the 76 mm SRGM can and will continue as required.
However, the sanctions certainly don't work in our favour. The WASS blackshark torpedoes and the active towed array sonars were the first casualties. The towed sonars are now coming from Atlas Germany, but the original choice was the Italian one.

Maybe even the contract for the tankers. We got the last two built from Fincantieri and now for the follow on production had short listed the Turkish company to provide design and technology. The turkish contract is not going to happen anyime soon now and the Fincantieri design will also languish at 2 ships only. Another 4 tankers of the same design as Fincantieri, to be built at HSL, would have speeded up the matter and the production would have started by now.
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Full ToT received for OTO 76/62 by BHEL Haridwar and its production continues unhindered. The gun has recently been installed in Rajput, Saryu and Reliance OPVs.
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The ban should've been limited only to the AW helo division.I feel that vested firang interests with powerful influence in the MOD ensured a total ban on Leonardo. Imagine if just one French co. is caught doing something similar.Will we ban all French defence cos. under one group? The Scorpene sub was earlier under DCNS now part of Naval Group.BAE similarly has a host of cos. We will be badly wounding ourselves if we adopt a blanket ban if just one co. of a group is found at fault.
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Philip wrote:The ban should've been limited only to the AW helo division.I feel that vested firang interests with powerful influence in the MOD ensured a total ban on Leonardo. Imagine if just one French co. is caught doing something similar.Will we ban all French defence cos. under one group? The Scorpene sub was earlier under DCNS now part of Naval Group.BAE similarly has a host of cos. We will be badly wounding ourselves if we adopt a blanket ban if just one co. of a group is found at fault.
this hop, skip and jump tactic was used very effectively by the BIF to deny artillery guns for the IA for decades. Rafale was delayed and similar games were played with the IN weapon systems to deny all the forces any real teeth to counter the pakis and the cheenis.

It finally took a Modi to push the stalled deals through, ignoring all objections.
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tsarkar wrote:Full ToT received for OTO 76/62 by BHEL Haridwar and its production continues unhindered. The gun has recently been installed in Rajput, Saryu and Reliance OPVs.
What about the ammo?
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Chetak,very true.The games are still being played out in the MOD over the amphibs for the IN, they now want the requirement for 4 35K t amphibs scrapped! For what? A white sea elephant large 3rd. carrier? Funds for the sea elephant have to come from somewhere! The lobby to sell us F-18SHs, EMALS ( not less than $1B for the system, while the new Ford CV which still has problems with it) AEW Hawkeyes and ASW helos to boot equipping the carrier's air arm is very active.If it goes through with the interoperability agreement we are being pressganged into signing, the carrier in all truth in the future may be remote controlled ftom the Pentagon not New Delhi! Step by step, nautical mile by naughty-cal mile, the IN is being transformed into a non- NATO vassal ally of the USN.Who knows , one day the flag it flies will not sport the tri- colour , but the stars and stripes! :D
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tsarkar wrote:Full ToT received for OTO 76/62 by BHEL Haridwar and its production continues unhindered. The gun has recently been installed in Rajput, Saryu and Reliance OPVs.
That's exactly my point. We have been manufacturing this gun for almost 25 years and have full ToT for it. However, now that want a higher calibre gun, again we have to go back to foreign vendor, for a new gun. It would have been the OTO-breda 127-64, if not for the blacklisting and now it will be the American gun. We will end up paying about 7,000 crores for 13 guns. Say 1.5% of that sanctioned for developing an indigenous version 10 years ago, might have yielded results by now.
The problem is that 10 years ago no one planned for this. The services didn't ask for it to be developed, as a standard part of its future large capital warship design and no one over the last 25 years, bothered about absorbing the under lying technology of the gun and developing something based on the same.
The story is same across the board. We are license manufacturing the AK-630 guns. But for a new anti-aircraft gun system, we will again go to SoKo or Russia.
The ToT programs are the biggest scams in Indian defence.
Years ago, I had spoken to a purchase officer from GSL. They used to have a small office in Mumbai, right opposite the MDL gate. (don't know, if they still have it). Was asking about future requirement for certain parts that we make for ships. He mentioned a few up coming projects that were in the pipeline. I asked him about the Super Dvora ships that were to be built at GSL. His reaction to that was "Oh, that's a ToT project. For ToT, we do not procure anything. The list is given by the original equipment manufacturer. We cannot even buy simple nut bolts on our own. Most things are simply imported".
I am sure we would have learnt nothing from the whole project and if we wanted to make a few follow on vessels, most parts, would still have to be imported from Israel or whichever other source, we had bought them from, all those years ago.
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abhik wrote:What about the ammo?
Made by OF
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mody wrote:That's exactly my point.
Agree. The AK-630 would have beautifully fulfilled IAF and IA AD gun requirement
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For anti aircraft gun the armed forces did plan ahead and were supposed be using Skyshield with full license transfer and production by OFB.
We would likely developed multiple systems including wheeled and naval mount around it but Rheinmetall black listing killed that venture.
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abhik wrote:What about the ammo?
Made by OF
I believe Vulcans and DART are not made by OFB.
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Intelligence Agencies Bust Espionage Racket, Arrest Seven Indian Navy Personnel Allegedly Spying For Pakistan
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/intellige ... r-pakistan

"They all hail from different parts of the country but are stationed in Visakhapatnam. The investigation is going on. We cannot share any more information at this juncture," said Gautam Sawang, director general of police (DGP), Andhra Pradesh, reports Bangalore Mirror.

Police suspect these officers had leaked information to terror groups in Pakistan. The espionage racketeers are said to have roped in government officials for spying.
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^The scale of the arrests is very concerning - I would have expected a lone wolf or two, but not seven personnel. Let's see if the agencies share more.
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Reg. naval guns,we as many have said above, should've indigenised and upgraded the Oto gun or Ru in similar fashion as we've done with Bofors/ Dhanush and ATAGS. The pvt. sector engaged in desi arty. could've been roped in too.However, the AK-130 main gun should've been adopted for the DDGs under construction, as it is one of the most powerful naval guns afloat.The dual barrel mount gives a rate of fire of 80/min.Eah shell weighs over 70 pounds and in the anti-air mode has a range over 15 km. It uses seawater for cooling and the recoil energy to load rounds.In contrast the US Mk-127 Mk-45 Mod.2 gun is single-barreled with only 20 rounds in the mount. The rate of fire of the AK-130 makes it ideal to deal with drone swarms too.

The arrest of so many naval personnel is very disturbing as Vizag is the key naval establishment today with the SSBN programme and Akula SSGN also based there.Vizag is also going to be home port for the new Vikrant.It is extremely sad to see so many service personnel these days in the 3 services, regularly being picked up spying for Pak.
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However, the AK-130 main gun should've been adopted for the DDGs under construction
It is Cold War relic too big for any of our vessels it was phased out by Russian navy in favor of A-192 which is not offered for export. Even Ak-130 was never offered for export FYI during 80s or 90s till the Chinese threw billions at Russia to purchase Sovremenny and reportedly found Ak-130 performance to be below par and never bothered moving reverse engineered (aka license tech transfer from Russia) Ak-130 to production and developed their own main gun.
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Ak-130 performance to be below par
Can you elaborate on exactly what were the issues?
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Manish_P wrote:
Ak-130 performance to be below par
Can you elaborate on exactly what were the issues?
Not much I can piece together other than complexity/inability when switching between different ammos, lower accuracy and outdated fire control system. Also I have had heard it was highly expensive to operate in Russian service.
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Gurus one query, it's mentioned that P 15B have sonar in the bow, but looking at launch pic, the bow doesn't have the bulbous bow that arleigh burke or type 45 have.

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I see a small rounded shape on P 15B bow, is there the sonar will be placed?
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Our DDGs have a more streamlined bow and sonar receptacle unlike the Burke's. The dome will protrude below the bulge in the pic, but follows the flow of the raked bow,probably adding a knot or two to the vessel's speed. Hull design by the navy's design bureau over the years has been v.good with assistance from a few foreign shipbuilders. The Rajput/ Kashin class hulls were optimised for speed and the P-15s borrowed some input from them.
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Because of paint scheme it is harder to see sonar in side profile pics but in frontal pics you can see it.

https://youtu.be/p03Z0noV3EY
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Philip wrote:Our DDGs have a more streamlined bow and sonar receptacle unlike the Burke's. The dome will protrude below the bulge in the pic, but follows the flow of the raked bow,probably adding a knot or two to the vessel's speed. Hull design by the navy's design bureau over the years has been v.good with assistance from a few foreign shipbuilders. The Rajput/ Kashin class hulls were optimised for speed and the P-15s borrowed some input from them.
the Navy's design bureau has also managed to quieten considerably the self noise generated from hulls to improve sonar performance
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Bulbous bow has nothing got to do with sonar, it’s meant for reducing drag. You can house sonar with or without a bulbous bow.
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John wrote:
Manish_P wrote:
Can you elaborate on exactly what were the issues?
Not much I can piece together other than complexity/inability when switching between different ammos, lower accuracy and outdated fire control system. Also I have had heard it was highly expensive to operate in Russian service.
Complexity - yes, haven't heard about inability, on the contrary, AK-130 (A-218) was considered to be way more reliable when firing long volleys than more modern A-190. The biggest disadvantage is the sheer size and weight of the gun, loading system and magazine, and it's massive recoil, limiting it to ships of 5000+ tons. Actually, the double barrel design was introduced only because the initial RuNavy requirement of 50 rounds/minute was out of reach with the initial A-217 single barrel gun. China, after acquiring AK-130s on their Pr.956 destroyers, backtracked the design to single barrel gun, which uses the barrel with same ballistics with muzzle brake but much less sophisticated loader and up-to-date targeting system.
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Philip wrote:Our DDGs have a more streamlined bow and sonar receptacle unlike the Burke's. The dome will protrude below the bulge in the pic, but follows the flow of the raked bow,probably adding a knot or two to the vessel's speed. Hull design by the navy's design bureau over the years has been v.good with assistance from a few foreign shipbuilders. The Rajput/ Kashin class hulls were optimised for speed and the P-15s borrowed some input from them.
The bow sonar array on P-15s is also quite smaller than AN/SQS-53C on Burkes.
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The Paki espionage ring busted has been exceptionally serious.The busting of it has not come to soon and the damage done could be enormous.Look at the facts.So many arrested.The traitorous spies reportedly based at Vizag- the main base of Indian nuclear submarines and the various N-sub programmes, Karwar and Bombay, the 3 most important naval bases.Next, where were some serving? Aboard the missile corvette Khanjar, the P-17 stealth frigate Shivalik and astonishingly , aboard the Kilo class sub Sindhukirti!

I am not famlliar with the security protocol that vets regularly our military, but in the age of social media and easy cohabitation offers available by sirens,often wh*ring for foreign entities, it is shameful that so many of our serving military
from time-to-time are reported to have been victims of Paki honey-traps. The most famous honeytrap of all was that of R&AW sr. officer.Unnikrishnan who served as
1st. Sec. at our Colombo mission.
He was entrapped by a supposed Pan Am stewardess, actually a CIA agent. The damage done reportedly to us was monumental, compromising our entire Lankan strategy. Fortunately, he was discovered before the damage was irreparable.

The FBI,CIA,etc. extensively use lie detectors and only highly trained agents of the major intel agencies can fool these tests. The armed forces should make it mandatory for those posted in sensitive postings to undergo such tests at regular intervals, questioning them whether they've been communicating with any foreigners, etc. A strict ban on using social media in any form must also be enforced.Such lapses in the armed forces are becoming too frequent.We remember the earlier Navy War Room scandal. We do not know if thete were more members of this ring still undetected.. The time for serious vetting is now.
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SNaik wrote:
John wrote: Not much I can piece together other than complexity/inability when switching between different ammos, lower accuracy and outdated fire control system. Also I have had heard it was highly expensive to operate in Russian service.
Complexity - yes, haven't heard about inability, on the contrary, AK-130 (A-218) was considered to be way more reliable when firing long volleys than more modern A-190. The biggest disadvantage is the sheer size and weight of the gun, loading system and magazine, and it's massive recoil, limiting it to ships of 5000+ tons. Actually, the double barrel design was introduced only because the initial RuNavy requirement of 50 rounds/minute was out of reach with the initial A-217 single barrel gun. China, after acquiring AK-130s on their Pr.956 destroyers, backtracked the design to single barrel gun, which uses the barrel with same ballistics with muzzle brake but much less sophisticated loader and up-to-date targeting system.
Thanks it’s been a while (almost decade)since I have discussed Ak-130, speaking of that do you know what the issue with A-190 is? I remember navy was supposed to go with that after Talwar purchase in 00s but seem to have gone to mix of Oto SR and Mk 45. Was it issue of reliability or cost as well?
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Will QRSAM replace Barak1? SRSAM was supposed to do that.
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Cybaru wrote:Will QRSAM replace Barak1? SRSAM was supposed to do that.
From what I last read foreign system will be procured as stop gap till SR SAM is ready.
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John wrote:
SNaik wrote:
Complexity - yes, haven't heard about inability, on the contrary, AK-130 (A-218) was considered to be way more reliable when firing long volleys than more modern A-190. The biggest disadvantage is the sheer size and weight of the gun, loading system and magazine, and it's massive recoil, limiting it to ships of 5000+ tons. Actually, the double barrel design was introduced only because the initial RuNavy requirement of 50 rounds/minute was out of reach with the initial A-217 single barrel gun. China, after acquiring AK-130s on their Pr.956 destroyers, backtracked the design to single barrel gun, which uses the barrel with same ballistics with muzzle brake but much less sophisticated loader and up-to-date targeting system.
Thanks it’s been a while (almost decade)since I have discussed Ak-130, speaking of that do you know what the issue with A-190 is? I remember navy was supposed to go with that after Talwar purchase in 00s but seem to have gone to mix of Oto SR and Mk 45. Was it issue of reliability or cost as well?
A-190 for a long time had a nasty habit to jam after about ten round volley. Apparently this has been rectified in the latest A-190M1, which comes with the stealthy mounting. The original producer - Arsenal JSC was blamed and the production was transferred to another factory Motovilihinsky Zavody in 2012 which managed to iron out the issues. I've seen A-190M on one of the second batch of Talwars doing a 30 round volley. Cost wise A-190 is on par with any Western gun of the same caliber.
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Navy upgrading airfields with 24x7 surveillance and real-time alerting
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24 Dec 2019

The Indian Navy is working towards upgrading the security infrastructure of its naval airfields by planning to install systems providing continuous surveillance, real time alerting and immediate response to a threat. The matter came to light in a report of the Standing Committee on Defence which was presented to the Lok Sabha Speaker on Friday. The Navy is progressing a comprehensive case for upgrading the security infrastructure of its airfields. Six naval air stations are being addressed at a projected cost of Rs 500 crore. “This project will leverage technology to provide seamless 24x7 surveillance, physical barriers, real time incident alerting and swift response through a robust and secure command and control system,” the Committee noted. The project has been taken up with the defence ministry to progress it under the revenue to capital route. The Committee has recommended that the upgradation of naval airfields is critical from surveillance and intelligence point of view, and the necessary action should be taken towards this. However, the move comes in the backdrop of the percentage share of the naval budget to the total defence budget witnessing a downfall in the current decade.

In 2012-13, the share was 18.12% and in 2014-15 it was 16.51% , which plummeted to 14.47% in 2018-19. The reduction is prominent in the capital segment, which declined from 10.41 percent in 2014-15 to 7.46 per cent in 2018-19. In the current financial year, it has been reduced to 13.66%. The Committee added that the Navy’s share of the defence budget has seen a steady decline from 18% in the 2012-13 to 13% in the current financial year. It stated that there is a need to enhance the Navy’s share of the budget, in view of its increasing operational commitments. “Keeping in view the declining trend of Navy’s budget over the years and growth of responsibilities, the Committee strongly desire that the Navy’s budget share should be enhanced to 18% of the overall defence budget,” it said. The Navy needs more money both for induction of new warships and other assets, pay up committed liabilities and also for the revenue segment. Navy Chief, Admiral Karambir Singh earlier this month had stated that the force has projected its requirement to the government, while it remains committed to progress force modernization, using the available resources optimally. In the face of shortages, it is emphasizing on prioritization, rationalization and economy of expenditure. It has also had to rework its plan to have 200 warships by 2027. The army and air force are also reeling under budgetary constraints. Such as the shortfall in the budget for the air force is being felt in aircraft maintenance, serviceability and modernization.
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