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India’s most critical submarine programme Project 75 (India), or P75(I), is running into fresh delays owing to challenges faced by potential foreign vendors in meeting a key criteria. While initial interest from German firm ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) gave the project a thrust, another contender, Navantia of Spain, is encountering obstacles in fulfilling the criteria, particularly the ‘proven AIP (air-independent propulsion)’ clause.
None of the other contenders, including France, Russia, and South Korea, have fully proven and operationally deployed such a system.
This, along with other stringent demands in the request for proposal (RFP), caused many contenders - French, Russian, and South Korean — to back out of the tender.
This left only two contenders, Spain and Germany.
If Spain is disqualified from the programme due to the proven AlP requirement, it will become a single-vendor situation, which will force the navy to re-issue the RFP once again, delaying the programme further.
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➡️ Navantia
➡️ Naval Group
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