France's state shipbuilder DCN today began manufacturing parts for the first of six Scorpene submarines ordered by India. New Delhi agreed in October 2005 to buy six of the Franco-Spanish submarines for 2.4 billion euros (three billion dollars).
The deal is a technology transfer agreement: the Scorpenes will be assembled in India, but the Direction des Compagnies Navales (DCN) will produce various key parts that require equipment unavailable at Indian shipyards.
Some 200 technicians and engineers at the DCN will be working full time on the submarine parts for the next eight years, the project's director, Xavier l'Helgoualc'h, said at a ceremony to mark the cutting of the first plate in the northern port of Cherbourg.
The Scorpene is a 1,750-tonne (1,929-ton) submarine, 67 metres (220 feet) long and capable of diving to a depth of 300 metres.
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