https://x.com/VinodDX9/status/2031233627619750231?s=20 ---> The P-75I project took much longer & reportedly to take much bigger financial investment than the original anticipation. What if, instead of waiting for the P-75I, India continued Kalvari Class, with development of the P-76 parallely with investment in SSN with more numbers!
https://x.com/cvkrishnan/status/2031236 ... 20049?s=20 ---> Back in 2019/20 I mentioned why P-75I is too ambitious in its tech transfer and licensing mandate. Although we don’t know the full details, I’ve a feeling that the Indian Navy wants an unlimited license to make beyond the 6 boats with independence from the German shipyard in the future and potentially merge the P-76 as a P-75I MKI. @Parthu_Potluri what do you think?
https://x.com/Parthu_Potluri/status/199 ... 22095?s=20 ---> The ONLY way I would consider this expense justifiable is if this was somehow a precondition for getting an FTA on favourable terms with the EU. If not, then consider $14 billion and a decade-plus of time successfully wasted in the form of a sub that can neither deliver the high-end capability of an SSN, nor the low-end affordability of additional Scorpene/Kalvaris. Gold-plated diesel boats are just not for Navies that plan to obtain true hunter-killer SSNs, which is what the Project-77 is shaping up to be - and likely will be delivered at around the same time as the first TKMS/MDL P-75I. And God only knows what the supposed ToT would give us that wasn't already learnt from license-building Type 209s and then Scorpenes? Just a convenient way to inflate the overall cost of the program without actually delivering any new industrial capability. And that's while not even going over the absurdity of tying up with a country like Germany, which is well-known for its ideologically-driven, highly irrational foreign policy decisions that could see the program be throttled by sanctions at the drop of hat.