According to the specialized Indian site www.livefistdefence.com, the European group MBDA and the French Naval Group are said to have offered the Indian authorities the MdCN cruise missile as part of the P75i program relating to the design and construction of 6 anaerobic-powered submarines for the Indian Navy. This announcement was expected, since the main competitor of the French group, the Rubin design offices of Saint-Petersburg, had proposed for their part the implementation of Kalibr cruise missiles from the proposed model based on the Lada class. This announcement further marginalizes the other offers presented under this program against to Naval Group offers and Rubin, neither Germany, nor Spain and nor South Korea having such long range cruise missiles and changing environments.
This is not the first time that the two groups have come together. In Poland in particular, they presented a very similar offer of attack submarines derived from the Scorpene model implementing the MdCN missile, and the functionality is also highlighted in the Dutch competition. Note that in Poland, the German TKMS had also tried to offer the MdCN, but MBDA refused the request, the MdCN missile being of French origin and under export control from Paris.
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