29 November 2021

India to approve plans for six-boat nuclear submarine fleet

by Rahul Bedi

India's federal government is expected to approve funding for the Indian Navy's (IN's) amended 30-year submarine building plan, first sanctioned in 1999, which will now include a programme to indigenously build six nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs).

Senior IN officers and industry officials have told Janes that the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is expected to initially sanction approximately INR500 billion (USD6.67 billion) before mid-2022 to build three 6,000-tonne SSNs at the Ship Building Centre in Visakhapatnam.

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