Germany has presented a government to government proposal for the sale of six advanced conventional submarines to India for the Navy’s P-75I procurement programme, diplomatic sources confirmed. A senior German delegation was in Delhi recently to take the discussions forward.
“The senior officials were here two weeks back. They had good talks in order to move the process forward,” diplomatic sources in the know said, without elaborating. The race for the deal, expected to cost upwards of ₹45,000 crore, is between Germany and Spain, and the process has been considerably delayed.
Indian and Germany discussed the deal at the highest level during the visit of German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius in June 2023, when he made a strong pitch for the bid by Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) in his talks with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Mr. Pistorius had said that the submarine deal could become a “flagship project” between the two countries.
