Next Generation Missile Vessels

[haldilal]

Ya'll Nibbiars

 

[125mm_Smoothbore]

ARMAMENT :
8 cruise missile
32 vl-srsam
2 ak 630 ciws
1 oto melera srgm
2 12.7mm automated machine gun mounts

 

[Bleh]

With designation Missile Corvettes Veer (7), Khukri (4) & Kora (5) classes aging, the Indian Navy is lining up plans for Next Generation Missile Vessels instead of upgrades.

INS Kirpan has been transferred to Vietnam in May (gods she was pretty).

 

[vampyrbladez]

With designation Missile Corvettes Khukri (4) & Kora (5) classes aging, the Indian Navy is lining up plans for Next Generation Missile Vessels instead of upgrades.

INS Khukri has been transferred to Vietnam in May (gods she was pretty).
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INS Kirpan was transferred to the Vietnamese Navy

 

[Bleh]

With designation Missile Corvettes Veer (7), Khukri (4) & Kora (5) classes aging, the Indian Navy is lining up plans for Next Generation Missile Vessels instead of upgrades.

INS Kirpan has been transferred to Vietnam in May (gods she was pretty).
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Continuing...

I don't see why we'd aspire to have a fleet of these so small. 16 Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASWSWC) & with 12 Mine Countermeasure Vessels (MCMV) are a fine replacement for them, but only 6 Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMV) are planned . 11 NG-OPVs are inadequately armed & barely count in combat scenario, so very little offensive strength.

We can't have dozens of destroyers or even frigates in foreseeable future & larger "stealth" warships which can only bring it down to fishing-trawler levels & us effectively non-LO in formation with others. But smaller ships of 1000ton class are more effective as stealthy, as theirs can be reduced to match even a boat, with Carbon-fibre & other signature reducing measures while being reasonably priced. We could afford a decent sized fleet of cheap but deadly & low-observable, AShM-AShBM (Sukanya has died Dhanush) armed Missile-Cutters guarding the whole coast & handling all littoral combat.


Sea jet (US)

Project 20386 (Rus)

Goa Shipyard unveils new OPV design for export at DEFEXPO 2014

Goa Shipyard unveils new OPV design for export at DEFEXPO 2014

armyrecognition.com

 

[SKC]

Is Tender awarded to any shipyard already?
Construction started?
Cochin or Goa Shipyard?

 

[SKC]

As per Haldi in 2021:

The Cochin Shipyard declared lowest bidder in the tender floated by the Indian Navy for construction of 6 missile vessels & the estimated total order value is around Rs 10,000 cr.

 

[SKC]

Designs from different Shipyards:

1. GSL:





2. GRSE

 

[SKC]

3. CSL

 

[SKC]

Update from September 2022:

Six of these are to be built by Cochin Shipyard Limited CSL which won the bid in 2021. CSL CMD Madhu S Nair told investors in May 2022 that negotiations with the Navy have been completed adding that while CSL expected award of contract by June, it may be delayed towards September. The six vessels, costing about 9,000 crores, would take over eight years to build. These would be armed with eight BrahMos missiles, VL-SRSAM for air defence and various guns.​

OP: @haldilal

 

[SKC]

Total - 6 NGMV and 11 NGOPV

 

[SKC]

Next Generation Missile Vessels
The contract for the acquisition of six Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMV) was signed with Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) at a cost of Rs 9,805 crore. The delivery of ships is scheduled to commence in March 2027.

The NGMVs would be heavily armed war vessels incorporating stealth, high speed and offensive capability. The primary role of the ships would be to provide offensive capability against enemy warships, merchantmen and land targets.

These ships will be capable of conducting Maritime Strike Operations, Anti Surface Warfare Operations and would be a potent instrument of sea denial for enemy ships, especially at choke points.

In a defensive role, these ships would be employed for Local Naval Defence operations and seaward defence of the Offshore Development Area.

The construction of these ships will generate employment of 45 lakh man-days over a period of nine years as per the statement.

The MoD explained that the indigenous manufacturing of these vessels will encourage the active participation of Indian shipbuilding and associated industries, including MSMEs.

Source: Article

OP: @WolfPack86​

 

[Fatalis]

View: https://x.com/DefSysCI/status/1832882819896672626?t=jVkCTunudLnhafZgU0rGcQ&s=19

 

[Bleh]

3. CSL

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Where dis from?

 

[Adm_Kenobi]

Where dis from?

From an Alpha Defence article, that is a Rajput class destroyer.

 

[Fatalis]

From an Alpha Defence article, that is a Rajput class destroyer.

Why our exhaust funnels are placed separately? Also, the MFR-X is for the VL-SRSAM or a completely new radar.

Lack of VLS for is surprising though.

 

[Adm_Kenobi]

Why our exhaust funnels are placed separately?

Good question for CSL.

Also, the MFR-X is for the VL-SRSAM or a completely new radar.

Seems to be larged than the 1.5m X-band radar for VL-SRSAM.

Lack of VLS for is surprising though.

Draught is too low for UVLM (~9m).

 

[fire starter]

It will have indigenous air surveillance radar by DRDO.

 

[Fatalis]

It will have indigenous air surveillance radar by DRDO.
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Do you have the article which mentioned DRDO is developing its own Air Search Radar for Indian Navy which would supplement Lanza LTR-25 ASR in the future?

 

[vampyrbladez]

The design looks very similar to Al Zubarah Corvettes designed by Fincantieri.

There was an MoU signed between CSL and Fincantieri in 2020.

Fincantieri, one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups, has signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), the leading shipbuilder in India.

Design, procurement and local construction of new vessels for the Indian defense market

https://www.defensehere.com/en/ital...eration-agreement-with-indian-cochin-shipyard