Sukhoi faces huge cost esclation: CAG
NEW DELHI, MAY 19 (PTI)
Licensed production of multi-role Sukhoi-30MKI fighters in the country is running into huge costs overruns and some of them in the latest batch are flying without some advanced critical airborne systems.
To add to this, the indigenous manufacture of the Russian frontline fighters is working out to more than the cost of imports, according to the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) placed in Parliament today.
Three critical airborne systems of the fighters-- electronic warfare system, reconissance system and direction finding modular radar have not not been integrated with the latest batch of aircraft delivered by the Russians under the November 1996 contract, the report said.
"There has been sharp slippage in delivery schedules and the fighters delivered had custmization only partly ", the CAG has pointed out.
Rapping the Government for huge cost esclation risks in the project, the CAG said the total cost of 140 aircraft projected by the Ministry in 2000 was Rs 22,122.78 crores at the 2000 price level, while a detailed project report prepared by HAL in july 2005, the amount shown was Rs 39,224.9 crores, almost a hundred price rise.
"Even this is open ended as the 2.5 per cent cost esclation agreed to by India is applicable only till 2007", the report sai
Hmmm......seems like India is having problems with configuring the MKI's. What impact will it have on the IAF if this keeps up? I think that the MKI's won't be delivered on time at all. Maybe 2020 can be a realistic time table for the MKI's.
NEW DELHI, MAY 19 (PTI)
Licensed production of multi-role Sukhoi-30MKI fighters in the country is running into huge costs overruns and some of them in the latest batch are flying without some advanced critical airborne systems.
To add to this, the indigenous manufacture of the Russian frontline fighters is working out to more than the cost of imports, according to the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) placed in Parliament today.
Three critical airborne systems of the fighters-- electronic warfare system, reconissance system and direction finding modular radar have not not been integrated with the latest batch of aircraft delivered by the Russians under the November 1996 contract, the report said.
"There has been sharp slippage in delivery schedules and the fighters delivered had custmization only partly ", the CAG has pointed out.
Rapping the Government for huge cost esclation risks in the project, the CAG said the total cost of 140 aircraft projected by the Ministry in 2000 was Rs 22,122.78 crores at the 2000 price level, while a detailed project report prepared by HAL in july 2005, the amount shown was Rs 39,224.9 crores, almost a hundred price rise.
"Even this is open ended as the 2.5 per cent cost esclation agreed to by India is applicable only till 2007", the report sai
Hmmm......seems like India is having problems with configuring the MKI's. What impact will it have on the IAF if this keeps up? I think that the MKI's won't be delivered on time at all. Maybe 2020 can be a realistic time table for the MKI's.