India Proposes BrahMos Missile Requirement For Next Submarines

[Mujraparty]

The Indian Defense Ministry has decided to mount the Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise missile onto the six conventional submarines purchased under a $12 billion tender.

India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which is jointly producing the BrahMos with Russia, has persuaded the MoD to incorporate the requirement for the tender, expected to be floated by the end of the year, according to Defense News.

The forthcoming submarines tender will stiffen the competition among the participants -- DCNS of France, Navantia of Spain and HDW of Germany, meanwhile, the Russians told the Indian Navy this month that their Amur-class submarines could accommodate the BrahMos missile with little modification.

India is finalizing a formal tender to purchase six advanced conventional submarines with air-independent propulsion technology.

The tender requirements also specify that two of the six submarines are to be made in the overseas shipyard and the remaining four are slotted to be license-produced only in a state-owned shipyard.


India Proposes BrahMos Missile Requirement For Next Submarines

 

[Jako]

With the level of confidence shown in brahmos and with the number of platforms it is being put on the stated range of missile looks to be a great Indian BLUFF.