India May Import Two Submarines Following Sindhurakshak Fire

India may import two submarines under the Project 75 (I) indigenous submarine building project to build six vessels, an RFP for which is expected in the next two-three months.

An earlier plan to build all six in India with technical help from a foreign collaborator may be modified in the wake of the fire disaster aboard the INS Sindhurakshak last week which gutted the submarine killing and injuring several crew members.

Russia’s Rosoboronexport, France’s DCNS, Germany’s HDW could be among the contenders to supply the two submarines and help build the remaining four.

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