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Navy's frigate induction plan hit by US ban on engine supply
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New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) India's plan to induct the newly-built Shivalik stealth frigate in the Navy this year may be hit with the US Administration halting the warship's gas turbine engines supplier from operationalising the contract.
Mumbai-based Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL) built the warship fitted with two LM 2500 gas turbine engines and was readying it for sea trials in a couple of months when the bad news from General Electric (GE) came as a shocker for the shipyard, Navy sources said here today.
Interestingly, LM 2500 is the engine Navy chose for its Indigenous Aircraft Carrier currently under construction in Cochin Shipyard and for which the keel-laying was done by Defence Minister A K Antony in the last week of February this year.
The GE communication, sources said, indicated that it could take up to three months for the matter to be resolved with the new Obama dispensation, which was currently reviewing its military relations with several countries.
Not just with India, GE was instructed to halt work with even US allies such as United Kingdom and Australia, sources said.
However, the Navy's top brass, putting up a brave face, claimed the US ban would not impact its Shivalik project, codenamed P-17, under which a series of three guided missile frigates are to be built, with the other two being named Sahayadri and Satpura. PTI
It’s contradictory, the sale of the Boeing planes for Navy Recon purposes has been Okayed but not this.
Seems to me an extension of Hillary’s abandonment of the Tibetans and political dissidents and religious adherents for the sake of China buying our debt.
But the engines were also being considered for the carriers, hence a real helping hand to China by Obama.