2 Mistakes That Have & Will Cost Indian Navy Dearly
Mistake 1 1. Sometime back we heard the news that the US Navy decided to scrap an amphibious ship. The US Navy decided to de-commission and scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard after a damage assessment found restoring the ship damaged by fire while sitting on a dock. 2. The cost of resorting to the ship was pegged at US$ 1 billion, instead the scrapping will cost US$ 30 million. This brings us to the mistake made by the Indian Navy. Indian Navy decided to acquire the fire-damaged Admiral Gorshkov for US$ 932 million in 2003 initially but after detailed inspection, it was decided to buy the ship for US$ 2.3 billion in 2008. It was inducted into the Indian Navy's INS Vikramaditya . 3. The mistake is that instead of spending so much money on a fire-damaged aircraft carrier, the Indian Navy could and should have spent the same amount of money on buying Next Generation Minesweepers. IN’s minesweepers were starting retirement by 2005 and today we don’t have a single minesweepe