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Defense and Security Intelligence and Analysis: IHS Jane's

Norway issues RfI as it weighs options for submarine fleet beyond 2020

By Kate Tringham

11/22/2012

The Norwegian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approached five shipbuilders for information to inform the possible purchase of new submarines as it considers options for its future underwater capability beyond 2020.

In a 16 November statement, Norwegian Minister of Defence Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen said that requests for information (RfIs) had been issued to DCNS (France), Fincantieri (Italy), Navantia (Spain), ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (representing Kockums in Sweden and HDW in Germany), and South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). Responses are expected by the end of 2012.

The Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) currently operates a fleet of six Thyssen Nordseewerke-built Type 210 Ula-class submarines. Commissioned between 1989 and 1992, the class is currently the subject of a mid-life modernisation to extend their operational lives out to around 2020.

After concluding in 2011 that Norway should indeed retain a sovereign submarine capability beyond this point, the MoD is now weighing up its options, which include a decision to either extend the lives of the Ula class for a second time, to replace the vessels, or a combination of the two options.

A decision on which route to take is expected to be made around 2014.

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Commissioned between 1989 and 1992, Norway's Ula-class submarines (second-in-class HNoMS Uredd is pictured here) are currently the subject of a mid-life modernisation to extend their operational lives out to around 2020.
Commissioned between 1989 and 1992, Norway's Ula-class submarines (second-in-class HNoMS Uredd is pictured here) are currently the subject of a mid-life modernisation to extend their operational lives out to around 2020.(IHS Jane's/Patrick Allen)

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