Germany will build six submarines for the Indian Navy in its largest weapons deal with the South Asian country in 42 years. It makes Germany the latest Western nation to nibble at India's vast arms import market as supplies of Russian weapons dry up.
On Wednesday, Indian shipbuilder Mazagon Dock signed a memorandum of understanding with ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems of Germany, a collaboration that German defence minister Boris Pistorius hailed as a “lighthouse project”.
