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Sunday, December 02, 2007

India plans to order 6 more submarines

Admiral Sureesh Mehta said, "We are now actively looking at the second line of submarines after the Scorpenes. I think the global tender for the six new submarines should be floated in the next financial year (2008-2009)."

Indian Navy is seems to be interested in German HDW, Russian Amur, or additional French Scorpenes for its next order.

Indian Navy currently operates 16 conventional diesal-electric submarines. The diesal-electric submarines include 10 Russian Kilo-class, four German HDW-class and two Foxrot-class submarines.

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