Submarine Matters International (SMI) will now EMAIL full articles (including the 12 Special Reports) to Donors only. Non-Donors will only be alerted, to what they are missing out on, by Headings on SMI. Donors are overwhelmingly readers who donate $A50 per year (currently approx US$37). There is also a much smaller group who have Donated by way of much information for 5+ years.
I originally aimed at preventing non-Donors from actually viewing/searching SMI. They will be able to view Old articles but not New articles. New articles will instead by Emailed direct to Donors by me from now on.
Emailing direct to Donors is also usefull because Blogspot (aka Blogger) plans, this month (July), to terminate the service of automatically Emailing articles (in the form of .PDFs) to readers. Instead I will carry on the Email service, but only for Donors.
I plan to write and distribute (to Donors) more articles than previously.
As I will be in direct email contact with Donors I more easily can tailor the subject matter of articles to Donor needs/requirements. Donors can also send me follow-up questions/comments more discretely than by the Public-(below article)-Comments method provided by Blogspot.
Note that only DONORS, via Email to Pete, at pete74730@yahoo.com.au can now comment on articles.
For anyone who still wants to Donate (for Full Articles and for the 12 Special Reports) please contact me at pete74730@yahoo.com.au . I will then send you a Donation invoice.
Regards Pete
2 comments:
Hi Pete,
It seems India is complicating things as usually, it seems that 3 out of 5 bidders could be out as they don't have a working submarine with AIP P-75I: MDL's AIP Clause could make only 2 Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) eligible for submarine contract
Saab did pull out due to Swedish major SAAB pulls out of P75I race, cites ‘unbalance’ in strategic partnership policy
"Defence sources also confirmed that foreign OEMs have raised concerns about the SP model, not limited to submarines alone. Under the SP policy, an Indian vendor will hold 51 per cent stake in the project, thus taking away control of the special purpose vehicle (SPV) that is to be formed with the foreign OEM.
The OEMs, on their part, have said it makes them liable for any malfunction and they cannot guarantee quality products and also abide by the timelines as sought by the government. Rignell said that SAAB was offering the Indian Navy A26 submarines, which are currently being built for the Swedish Navy."
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Thanks for being the first commenter under the new Donors-Only-Can-Comment system. Over the years all comments needed to go through me anyway for moderation - so the new system isn't completely new.
As you intended - clicking on "P-75I: MDL's AIP Clause could make only 2 Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) eligible for submarine contract" brings the reader to https://idrw.org/p-75i-mdls-aip-clause-could-make-only-2-oems-eligible-for-submarine-contract/
and clicking on "Swedish major SAAB pulls out of P75I race, cites ‘unbalance’ in strategic partnership policy" yields https://theprint.in/defence/swedish-major-saab-pulls-out-of-p75i-race-cites-unbalance-in-strategic-partnership-policy/297232/
Two things., I feel after looking at India for more than a decade, India appears to continually operate beyond normal arms contract expectations:
One considerations appears to be placing pork-barreling and commissions (all round) no matter the time delay, on a scale unseen in most countries.
And secondly India appears to demand an extended multi-year shortlist phase (Before Purchase) that effectively involves transfer of sensitive technologies (in P-75I's case AIP). India's DRDO desparatly wants working AIP (fully operationally mature) without paying to mature its own AIP. And dare I say India's rather close military-industrial ally Russia wants someone else's AIP because Russia', for decades, has been unable to develop its own efficint AIP.
Russia would repay India in many ways if India could source and quietly transfer efficient AIP to Russia (with love) - mainly looking at Sweden's and Germany's.
Regards
Pete
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