Looks like the IN looking to replace the Tarantuls

Indian Navy puts out RfI for next-gen missile vessel

In the full article, the RfI stipulates that the vessel must have 8 ASCM/LACM, point defense missile, CIWS, and 25mm gun.

The RFP states: AShM + PDMS + VSHORADS + CIWS + medium gun + light cannon

AFAIK, russian navy lack of 10 tonne naval heliopter, such as Nh-90, AW-101. I wonder why russian design naval version Mi-8/17 for RuNavy :confused:

Mi-38
http://www.russianhelicopters.aero/en/helicopters/civil/mi-38.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/russia39s-fourth-mi-38-makes-flight-debut-405011/

Russia Ready to Supply India With Anaerobic Submarines

Great, so air dependent submarines are now called aerobic subs? :applause:

so is the price of 183 million dollars for a ship with the radar and sensors fitted and no weapons or are fixed gun and cannons fitted in the price

If you exclude the cost of the feasibility studies in 1999.
This is hull, mechanical and electrical systems only.
Mind you this is about 10 years ago (pre 2008 economic crisis), so do allow for inflation, devaluation etc.
Correlate price with the Huitfeldt frigate unit cost as well.
I would think Absalon would be a bit cheaper than Huitfeldt due to ‘lesser’ weapon and sensor suite (but not a whole lot).

Cost: DKK2.5bn(total),[1] (~US$225m/ship) excluding weapon modules

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalon-class_support_ship

One of the reasons that the Absalon class was attainable, was a willingness to accept systems being installed in phases. This meant a delay in acheiving full operational status but both ships were available for limited operations in the meantime. It has also resulted in some confusion over costs. Prices as low as 1.256 billion Kroner (Cdn $263M) have been quoted. The actual cost for the entire Absalon class program, completely equipped, is quoted as 2.7B Kroner (Cdn $565M).

http://www.casr.ca/id-danish-naval-projects-absalon.htm
= $282,5 million per unit

The latter figure sound quite reasonable compared to the unit cost of the huitfeldt

5 ships of the Damen Crossover XO / Mission Flexible Combatant design e.g. 3 frigates and 2 assault
Backed by a Damen JSS.
= 2 billion

use 1 billion to upgrade Lynxes, F18, P3s and get some uavs and aewc platforms

these ship are reported as costing $225 to $260 million dollars so I am sorry 900 million to to 1.04 billion for 4 ship its the 4 engine Iver Huitfeldt-class ships that cost 335 million each 80% same hull different fit out

Program Acquisition Plan: The Naval Material Command (NMC), in cooperation with a number of foreign designers, initiated a pre-feasibility study for the two Flexible Support Ships authorized under Defense Agreement 2000-2004. An integrated part of the study was the derivative design for the Patrol Ship variants.

Feasibility studies for the program, involving Direction Constructions des Navales International (DCNI) (now Armaris) and BAE Systems, were completed by the end of 1999. Three Danish shipyards (Oerskov Steel Shipyard, Odense Steel Shipyard (Lindoe Yard), and Danyard Aalborg Shipyard) were selected to submit detailed designs and prices by May 2001. Danyard Aalborg Shipyard declined to bid on this program. Tenders were returned in late June 2001, however, both were above the set ceiling price of US$110M (hull, mechanical, and electrical systems only).

On 03 August 2001, the NMC cancelled the tender activity and entered into parallel negotiations with Oerskov and Odense yards. Several meetings were held to clarify the specifications, and to mitigate areas of risk and identify cost savings in order to reduce the overall price. On 15 October 2001, as a result of these negotiations, Odense Steel Shipyard was awarded a US$110M contract for the detailed design and construction of the two ships. First steel was cut for Absalon on 30 April 2003, launched on 25 February 2004 and accepted by the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) on 19 October 2004. The second unit, Esbern Snare, was launched on 21 June 2004 and accepted by the RDN on 18 April 2005.

An additional US$256M was authorized to complete the construction and integrate both units of the class, allowing a total cost of US$183M per unit. The US$183M does not include the containerized STANFLEX systems, which are already in stock or funded through a separate budget.

http://www.amiinter.com/samples/denmark/DA6001.html

The Danish Iver Huitfeldt class, which costs as little as $333 million per ship (including sensors and weapons!)
http://www.navalreview.ca/wp-content/uploads/public/vol8num4/vol8num4art6.pdf+

The Danes claim Nils Juel and its sister ships were built for US $325 million apiece — an impressive accomplishment for a ship displacing more than 6,600 tons, fitted with a sophisticated combat and communications suite, armed with Standard, Evolved Sea Sparrow and Harpoon missiles, 76mm and 35mm guns, torpedoes and a helicopter, able to cut the waters at 30 knots and travel more than 9,000 nautical miles without refueling.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?159275-Iver-Huitfeldt-class-Frigate&p=7465389&viewfull=1#post7465389

he Navy should purchase any of the cheaper, more versatile, more survivable, LCS alternatives available on the world market:

Denmark’s Iver Huitfeldt class frigate is twice the size of the LCS, has twice the range, orders of magnitude more firepower, and at a price of $333 million before weapons and costs about $450 million less than an LCS.21 Crucially, it drafts only three feet deeper than the LCS.
http://www.ciponline.org/research/html/littoral-combat-ship

The Danish frigate displaces twice that which an LCS does (6,600 tons versus 3,300 tons), but costs only $332M per ship excluding weapons. Even if one assumes that the weapons will double the cost, the Huitfeldts’ pricetag remains about the same as the DOD estimate for the LCS.
http://warontherocks.com/2013/08/getting-our-moneys-worth-lcs-vs-iver-huitfeldt-class/

631 miljoen euro voor de drie schepen [€631 million for 3]
http://marineschepen.nl/schepen/iver-huitfeldt.html

American aircraft carriers will peak in 2024

Very loose use of the term ‘aircraft carrier’…

I’ve seen a similar kind of concept being advertised for the Klub..a container that could be stationary or be carried on a railway bogey and look like any other cargo container. Would be very hard to neutralise something like that without very very specific intelligence and a platform nearby to act as a shooter to take it down.

I’m not familiar with terrain on the Falklands, but assume there is not railsystem and only limited roadspace to move around. Over distance, containers would be moved primarily by ship and/or helicopter (CH-47), and only small distances by truck (Scammel/Leyland DAF or Foden DROPS), I would think. Not as mobile as in, say, a UK setting.