Russia has offered India to jointly develop and further build new submarines, According to the newspaper The Economic Times, citing its sources, familiar with the situation. The joint development of the next generation of submarines will significantly reduce the cost of purchasing submarines, According to the publication.
Publication author suggests, that the proposal, India can be considered as an alternative to future tenders, in which the company wishes to determine Delhi, the ability to deliver the Indian Naval Forces six new diesel-electric submarines for $10 billion. But Russia, without waiting for tender, He proposed a joint development and construction of submarines, at what Moscow is ready to transfer the Indian side of the rights to all intellectual property, intended for the construction of the prototype and design of future submarines. In a nutshell, newspaper writes, that in this situation in India there will be no restrictions on the number of submarines, under construction on the project.
As noted, Russian proposal involves co-creation of non-nuclear submarine, adaptation and setting it missiles “BrahMos”, as well as the creation of a joint project airindependent power plant. This proposal was discussed in May this year during the Sochi forum.
