Incog_nito
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I think Gwadar needs more time and maybe China wants to use it as a Military base.Should also move the construction site to Karachi or Gawdar
So, all hats of to Karachi

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I think Gwadar needs more time and maybe China wants to use it as a Military base.Should also move the construction site to Karachi or Gawdar

SSB does not offer only partnership in project. It also proposes that "requirements are set by joint studies", therefore, Pakistan Navy will have the authority in the detailed design process. So, unlike the MILGEM project, SSB offer this "MILDEN(National Submarine project)" to be carried out together from scratch.this doesn't have to be a straight MILDEM purchase
but rather a custom design like the Jinnah Class/Ada Class
Is there an interview or something with the SSB to confirm this? ThanksSSB does not offer only partnership in project. It also proposes that "requirements are set by joint studies", therefore, Pakistan Navy will have the authority in the detailed design process. So, unlike the MILGEM project, SSB offer this "MILDEN(National Submarine project)" to be carried out together from scratch.
My opinion here is not based on any official statement. But as someone who knows project management processes more or less, these are my inferences that I am sure.Is there an interview or something with the SSB to confirm this? Thanks![]()
As far as I know previously there was a policy of blocking links of all other defence forums and it seems this policy is still effective, so this policy is not exclusively related to any particular forum or country .....Why the Pakistan defense forum censoring Turkish defense forums?
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As far as I know previously there was a policy of blocking links of all other defence forums and it seems this policy is still effective, so this policy is not exclusively related to any particular forum or country .....
BUT I think we should allow access to Turkish forums .... it will not harm the interest of the forum ....
I do not think you understand the term TOT which has been misinterpreted amongst most Pakistani posters. You also have to look at TOT in the context of what your buying country actually produces(raw material). You also need to know the French practice of what they do to old platforms as they build newer ones.What was the point of spending so much $$$ on 3 Agosta submarines with TOT if we never were gonna build more of them or atleast a domestic version back in the 90s? Oh yeah the kickbacks the PPP and our Generals got...
The PN won't have as much trouble getting original frigate or submarine designs.I do not think you understand the term TOT which has been misinterpreted amongst most Pakistani posters. You also have to look at TOT in the context of what your buying country actually produces(raw material). You also need to know the French practice of what they do to old platforms as they build newer ones.
On the first point PN got a lot of basic skills transferred to it during the Augusta build up. This included underwater soldering which apparently is quite specialized. But more importantly we got a lot of CAD facilities which helped us out in various projects.
The third sub was manufactured in house with materials provided by OEM and subsystems which were integrated. As Pakistan has no infrastructure to manufacture specialised steel for Sub building, there was no sense in getting any more. I am not sure as to what China could have provided to you at that time. However since then the Chinese have become your go to's for raw materials. The shaping of some of these materials is quite specialized as well so has to be done by OEMs.
Lastly the French have a nasty habit. When they start building a newer platform they will stop providing older platform support and replacement parts. If you do need them they are provided at hugely inflated rates, which is why before MRF a simple belt was apparently costing PAF 4000$ for the mirage. I can bet you a big mug of tea, the French on request had asked you to buy the later version of their Sub rather than provide you parts for the 90Bs.
So in short you cannot have significant off sets as you do not produce specialized steel for the sub and ships. A simple plant will set you back 2-4 billion dollars which you don't have. You did get TOT regarding designing with CAD machine and some other precision tooling which has come in handy for later projects like the JFT. Another reason may well be backhanders but that is normal in any defence related deal the world over. Even with the Chinese subs the material will come from China so you might get better adapted at learning the philosophy behind sub design but till such times that you produce specialised grade steel and venture into turbine manufacturing there will be no independence. With the small scale that you need such weapons the expense is probably not worth the hassle. Having said that we have been grappling with the idea offsetting up Steel manufacturing industry since the mid fifties when the Germans put their recommendations through to pak government when we actually had the money to buy the plants. However we did not do it then and the behemoth we have created in Karachi is being resurrected(although we will still not get what we need out of it. So we all live in hope.
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This is precisely the reason I have been saying that Paklands and Turkey are much more natural allies and collaborators than Pak China ( no disrespect to our chinese brothers). With Turkey we can collaborate on setting up key industries with work share agreements. The collaborative approach will hel0 us get the economy of scale which we cannot get on our own. The approach should now be to get key products which serve common interests and needs and only buy subassemblies which the consortium does not produce at the same time trying to get the relevant technology in house. We will need 3-4 nations collaborating and perhaps 1-2 smaller countries being part of the collaborations getting arms at subsidized rate. Pak-Turk-Azeri/Ukrainian collaboration comes to mind with Qatar/Bahrain and Malaysia being the other partners.The PN won't have as much trouble getting original frigate or submarine designs.
The real challenge is - as you said - the lack of feeder industries in Pakistan to indigenize critical inputs like engine, steel, sensors or other electronics.
So when collaborating with others, our focus should be on building feeder industries of our own.
As it stands today, the only country that seems to be willing to talk to us about this is Turkey -- they also want to build those industries, but lack the funding power of a superpower to do it alone, so they need consortiums and partnerships to help scale.