There is up to six months delay in the delivery of the two Krivak or Talwar-class stealth frigates under construction for the Indian Navy in Russia due to the war in Ukraine. The first frigate is now expected to be delivered by November 2023 and the second one by April 2024, according to Alexey Rakhmanov, Director-General of United Shipbuilding Corporation of Russia
Earlier, there was about nine-month delay in the schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first frigate, Tushil, was launched into water in October 2021.
“We see no more than six-month delay basically due to the fact that some equipment which we have ordered has fallen under sanctions... We do not see any sort of manufacturing issues... We don’t expect any further issues. Some catch of the schedule is also expected because we really value our relationship with our customer and we try to shrink the delay due to the obvious force majeure situation starting February this year,” Mr. Rakhmanov told the visiting media at the ongoing Army-2022 exhibition.
