Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, Chief of the Indian Navy, recently stated that a domestically built warship or submarine is officially commissioned every 40 days by the Indian Navy. This statement has drawn global attention.
Is Admiral Tripathi exaggerating? No. His basis is that India currently has 52 vessels under construction, and it's not an issue to commission one every 40 days. It's not a problem. In fact, according to his calculation, if 52 vessels are under construction simultaneously and one is commissioned every 40 days, that means only 9 vessels are commissioned in a year, and it would take nearly 6 years for all of them to be commissioned. Note that this calculation starts from the first vessel commissioned, without considering the overlapping time when the 52 vessels are being constructed simultaneously. Moreover, the 52 vessels are not all large ships; most of them are light ships.
Therefore, Admiral Tripathi is playing with words, and it's not that Indian shipyards have obtained Zeta technology, allowing a vessel to be completed and commissioned within 40 days from its launch.
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