Defense/ India
The Indian government will be launching a major naval expansion soon that will include the indigenous construction of
seven stealth frigates and six nuclear powered attack submarines. Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet approved plans to build the 13 new ships at
about a cost of one trillion rupees or about $16 billion on
Tuesday.
The expansion would triple the size of
India’s nuclear submarine fleet and comes on the heels of Narendra Modi’s pitch to
increase the proportion of indigenous defense production in India. In a recent
speech, Modi said that he would like the percentage of domestic procurement in
India to increase to 70 percent.
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