Indian Navy eyes expansion with three more Russian-made Krivak IV frigates

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Indian Navy's quest to emerge as a global and regional sea power will receive a major boost with New Delhi and Moscow in negotiations to purchase three additional frigates from Russia.

Military partnership has been the cornerstone of Indo-Russian ties and the Indian Navy has been using Russian-made frigates. It has been learnt that India and Russia have already held preliminary discussions for the three additional frigates that the navy would purchase from Moscow. The talks on this issue will gain momentum when Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin arrives in Delhi on Tuesday with a jumbo delegation.

"Discussions are at a preliminary stage and it will get concretised in the coming days," said an official speaking on condition of anonymity, refusing to divulge details of the type of frigate and its features at this stage of negotiations.

However, it is understood that these frigates could belong to Krivak IV class of Russia. A Krivak IV class frigate is equipped with a 100-mm gun, a Shtil medium-range air defence system, Club-N supersonic antiship missiles, two Kashtan point defence systems, two twin 533-mm torpedo launchers, and an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.

Russia, it is understood, made the offer to supply three additional frigates. India, which is constructing seven indigenous frigates at Mumbai and Kolkata, is mulling over the proposal.

The issue was discussed last April when the two sides agreed on a roadmap of doables in several areas of military cooperation. This roadmap would be deliberated in details between Rogozin and his Indian interlocutors, officials hinted. His delegation includes Alexander V. Fomin, director of federal service for military and technical cooperation and several key Russian defence industry bosses. The discussions would also focus on supply of spare parts for Russian supplied aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF), development of Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft and much delayed aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.

This will be Rogozin's, a close aide of President Vladimir Putin, maiden visit to India. Rogozin who is the co-chairman of Russian-Indian Intergovernmental Commission on military-technical, trade, economic, scientific and cultural cooperation will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and defence minister A.K. Antony besides commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma. Russia is taking part in 20 tenders in India, with which it has a military-technical cooperation agreement until 2020.

Last month India received - INS Teg - the first of three the Stealth Talwar frigates it ordered from Russia six years ago. The 3,970 tonne P-17 project Talwar's are 124.5 meter (386 feet) long, carry 24 anti-aircraft and eight anti-ship missiles, four torpedo tubes, as well as a 100mm gun, short range antimissile guns, a helicopter, and anti-submarine weapons (depth charges and missiles).

The ship has a complete set of electronics gear. The crew strength is 180. All of the Talwars are being equipped with eight BrahMos anti-ship missile (range of 290 km) each. The Talwar is a modified version of the Russian Krivak III class.



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[black_jack]

Old article about pipavav-rosoboron

Pipavav Shipyard Ltd has informed BSE that the Company has signed Protocol with M/s. Rosoboron Export which is a Russian Government arm for Defence co-operation with foreign Governments.

This Protocol is for four additional numbers of Stealth Frigate under Russian collaboration at the yard of the Company. The Russians have delivered 3 Stealth Frigates for India and balance 4 are under construction at Russian Yard. This Protocol will help the Company to develop state of art technology to build frontline warships on a cost effective time bound basis. The Company is the first private sector Shipyard in India post Independence to be approved for building of Warships. The Russian counterpart have signed this Protocol after being fully convinced about the capacity and capabilities of Pipavav Shipyard to build stealth frigates under their technology and supervision. The Protocol also covers the Mid-Life updates, dry docking, repairs and modernization of submarines of Russian origin in Use by the Indian navy.

This could be a great boon to the Indian navy as they in future have a dependable Indian yard for critical maintenance and preparedness for any emergencies. The cost and forex savings would be tremendous in addition to the strategic advantage.

Pipavav - Protocol with Rosoboron Export

 

[Archie]

Well Two things in the article need to be corrected

Krivak IV are bigger than Krivak III which forms the basis of 6 Talwar class Frigates

Also This Frigate will be equiped with Brahmos and Barak 8 , not the Klub N and Shtil Systems

 

[tvsram1992]

The future of every navy depends on so called stealth ships , submarines and nuclear powered .

 

[Sergi]

IN on roll good news

 

[GR!FF!N]

i think we are much better off with our P-17..right???we can offer them to built P-17 in their shipyard as ours is full..

 

[black_jack]

hey i have question
Does the second lot of Talwar class frigate has Barak missile or Russian SAM ?

 

[arp2041]

i think we are much better off with our P-17..right???we can offer them to built P-17 in their shipyard as ours is full..

yes P-17 is much better than Talwar class any given day, as Talwar class primary role is ASW whereas P-17s are multirole frigates with more tonnage, but IN has to increase it's nos. because of it's increasing role, our shipyards are already full so we have no other option but to give contracts for more frigates to Russia. As far as question of giving contract of P-17s to Russia is concerned, we can never do that b'coz it is high-tech indigenous tech. which no country would like to share with others.

 

[sudhir007]

i think we are much better off with our P-17..right???we can offer them to built P-17 in their shipyard as ours is full..

agreed with your point if they want light vessel then they can go for P-28.

 

[angeldemon_007]

If IN wants to purchase more FFGs from a foreign vendor then why the hell they are not joing hands with BAE on Type 26 FFG project ? It is way better than what Russia has to offer. Infact India can go for French or Italian FREMM also. The new Krivak 4 is not gonna cost less, its cost will be close to FREMM and may be even more than that.

 

[Asskicker]

What ever it is lets do the kick as$ work asap...To kick our enemies as$ anytime required..

 

[sancho]

If IN wants to purchase more FFGs from a foreign vendor then why the hell they are not joing hands with BAE on Type 26 FFG project ? It is way better than what Russia has to offer. Infact India can go for French or Italian FREMM also. The new Krivak 4 is not gonna cost less, its cost will be close to FREMM and may be even more than that.

Because they are more costly, especially produced in Europe, will add another type which is not needed and can't be customised like the Russian vessels.

 

[keerthan]

some one plz post bthe specifications of krivak 4 frigates then we can have much better discussions

 

[GR!FF!N]

some one plz post bthe specifications of krivak 4 frigates then we can have much better discussions

it is almost same as Talwars,except it use SS-N-25(not for us) instead of RBU-6000.plus new radar,sonar etc.though Talwars are called Krivak III,it could be called Krivak IV too.even Krivak V is russian derivative of Talwars...what the hell..

all of them are almost same,few are russian derivatives with long range missile,wile Talwar gets short legged one.

 

[Royan]

it is almost same as Talwars,except it use SS-N-25(not for us) instead of RBU-6000.plus new radar,sonar etc.though Talwars are called Krivak III,it could be called Krivak IV too.even Krivak V is russian derivative of Talwars...what the hell..

all of them are almost same,few are russian derivatives with long range missile,wile Talwar gets short legged one.

Kora class corvette uses this missile.