Recently we have heard the good word-bending by official from Sedef Shipyard in Saha Expo.
They have explicitly told:
"The ship will be delivered to Navy, if they accept it."
They are on verge of complaining of the Navy for not accepting the ship thus trying to establish a political pressure to deliver vessel on time.
The sea trials and on board systems, with some more additions are in fact more than canberra or juan carlos,
only title of operations to be conducted the sea trials are occupies A4 sized document that can be called a book. Imagine the 'items' in the list which some lasts long for hours or days or requires switching run and some can not be done simultaneously. The estimated schedule for the sea trials excluding a last visit to the dock for last repair and inspection before the delivery, takes nearly a year.
Now the word of "
partial acceptance" is around for a while (i have also written about this earlier) the ship will be delivered in 2022, somehow, so that shipyard can avoid from paying the compensation but the commissioning will take time up to the midst of 2023.
Note: End of November, as of now the
port acceptance has not begun that is needed to prove the ship to be
sea worthy. The port acceptance shall be completed before the ship sets sail for the
sea trials. Sea trials excluding the troubleshooting and the fixing procedure and the last dry dock visit for non-damaging-test of critical sections, takes nearly a year.
Adding up the port acceptance, sea trials, troubleshooting and fixes, last drydocking and commissioning procedures my estimation for a true commissioning is about July to August 2023.
Our bureucrats and high ranks officials should listen to their admirals and the PKO engineers in naval shipyard, not some businessmen that owns a shipyard.