The OHP frigate is the one you should be unhappy about. PN are going to spend huge amounts of resources to support only 1 old frigate, a far cry from the 6 they asked for.
Transfer costs $65million, a huge amount of resources?
65 million USD = 5,4 billion PKR
XE.com Conversion - 65,000,000.00 USD to PKR
Assuming a usefull service life in PN of 10 years > spread transfer cost over 10 years > divide by 10 for annual cost
= 6.5 million USD = 0.54 billion PKR
Factor in operating cost of about $16 million (1.33 billion PKR) annually, or almost 1/4 of transfer cost.
Annual cost OHP McInerney: 0.54+1.33 = 1.87 billion PKR
Pakistan’s defence budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year starting 1 July was raised by 7.6 percent – from Rs (Pakistan) 275 billion in 2007-08 to Rs 296.07 billion ($4.4 billion). The increase was claimed to be negligible, due to 10.4 percent inflation, increase in fuel prices and 20 percent increase in pay and allowances.
Of Rs 296 billion, a major portion of Rs 294.9 billion have been allocated to military defence. Of military defence allocation, Rs 99 billion will be spent on employees’ related expenses. The operating expenses will be Rs 82.84 billion and the cost of physical assets Rs 87.63 billion.
A report in the Daily Times has given the break down in the defence budget thus, “allocations for the Pakistan Army have increased by 4.31 percent as compared to last year with a grant of Rs 128.699 billion.
The budgetary allocation for the Air Force has increased by 5.93 percent in 2008-09 with Rs 71.006 billion, as compared to Rs 67.028 billion allocation in 2007-08”.
The Navy saw the highest increase in allocations by 14.16 percent with a total grant of Rs 29.133 billion, as compared to Rs 25.518 billion in 2007-08.
Pakistan’s Defence Budget: Misplaced Priorities by Col. Rahul K. Bhonsle
Pakistan’s defence budget FY2008-09: Rs 296.07 billion ($4.4 billion)
of which
Military defence Rs 294.9 billion
of which
Army Rs 128.699 billion.
Air Force Rs 71.006 billion
Navy Rs 29.133 billion (about 10% of budget for [military] defence)
Pakistan Defense Budget 2009-2010: Rs 343 billion
Pakistan Defense Budget 2009-2010 — Pro-Pakistan
Using the same spread over services, thats est. Rs 33.614 billion for the navy in 2009-2010
Of course, the Navy share of the defence budget for military defence may vary over time.
http://www.ipcs.org/article_details.php?articleNo=956
Nonetheless, 1.87 billion PKR comes down to 6.4% of 2008-2009 Navy outlays and 5.6% of 2009-2010 Navy outlays.
Over its expected servicelife of 30 years, F22P will - with higher initial acquisition cost of $150-$175 million but probably lower annual operating cost e.g. due to smaller crew - will come out similarly in terms of total annual cost (calculated that example elsewhere in an/this F22P thread)
As also explained elsewhere too, there is no 'reservoire' of OHPs. Like McInerney, any OHPs for Pakistan come about by retiring active USN ships. McInerney is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2010. The next few OHP to retire are scheduled for decommisioning starting 2013. There are only 2 mothballed OHPs, but they will be much more expense to bring back to service and to transfer 'cold' to foreign navy, compared to the 'hot' transfer than McInerney and others would be. In sum, for more cheap OHPs, just be patient and wait for them to retire from US service.
1.87 billion PKR comes down to 6.4% of 2008-2009 Navy outlays and 5.6% of 2009-2010 Navy outlays.
Over its expected servicelife of 30 years, F22P will - with higher initial acquisition cost of $150-$175 million but probably lower annual operating cost e.g. due to smaller crew - will come out similarly in terms of total annual cost (calculated that example elsewhere in an/this F22P thread)
As also explained elswhere, there is no 'reservoire' of OHPs. Like McInerney, any OHPs for Pakistan come about by retiring active USN ships. McInerney is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2010. The next few OHP to retire are scheduled for decommisioning starting 2013. There are only 2 mothballed OHPs, but they will be much more expense to bring back to service and to transfer 'cold' to foreign navy, compared to the 'hot' transfer than McInerney and others would be. In sum, for more cheap OHPs, just be patient and wait for them to retire from US service.
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