The Indian Navy’s Project 17 is nearing completion; three Indian-designed-and-built stealth frigates of the Shivalik class are on track to enter service.
Now, attention has switched to Project 17-A, the country’s biggest-ever naval purchase, a Rs 17,000 crore plan to build seven stealth frigates that are even more advanced than the Shivalik class.
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has long cleared the project, but no order has yet been placed by the Ministry of Defence.
Business Standard has learned that the order is held up by a difference of opinion between the shipyards and the navy on where these frigates should be built.
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