Posted on 09/21/2012 3:15:50 AM PDT by ryan71
On September 18th Russia told India that delivery of the refurbished Russian carrier Admiral Gorshkov (since renamed the INS Vikramaditya) would be delayed ten months. The problem is that seven of eight steam boilers in the carrier power plant failed during recent high-speed trials. The Russians blame India for this, as the Indians refused to allow the Russians to use asbestos to insulate the steam boilers. Instead the Russians had to use firebrick which, as some engineers suspected, was not adequate. Now extensive work has to be done on the engines to rectify the problem. India is not happy with yet another delay. The Gorshkov served in the Russian Navy from 1987 to 1995, but was then withdrawn from service because the navy could not afford to keep the carrier operational. Gorshkov was put up for sale and in 2005 India agreed to buy a refurbished Gorshkov.
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India is currently 4th, below USA, Russia, China. What are your proposals how India can improve that positioning?
I agree asbestos is great stuff.
When we had to take it out of gaskets and brake linings it was a bad deal both cost and performance wise.
I heard from an old brake engineer that it was only smokers who died from asbestosis, that the combination of smoking and asbestos fibers was a huge negative synergy.
“What are your proposals how India can improve that positioning?”
For starters, TRUST THE PEOPLE THAT BUILT THE BOAT. We may not like Putin because he puts his country first and throws gays in jail, but their engineers are among the best in the world, and if they say to keep asbestos in certain applications, then BELIEVE THEM.
How’s that?
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