Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems has signed a contract worth 35 million Euros (approximately Rs 250 crore) for the upgrade of Indian Navy’s two Shishumar Class submarines to fire Harpoon Anti-Submarine Counter measure missiles.
The retrofit of the new weapon suite will be carried out in two of the four SSK submarines (INS Shishumar, Shankush, Shalki and Shankul) at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai and is backed by a training package to support and operate the system.
Commenting on the latest development, Gurnad Sodhi, managing director of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems’ operations in India, said, “It is a key milestone in our long-standing commitment towards India.
We have the capacity to integrate any weapon system that is selected by the Indian Navy, onto our submarines. We have successfully carried out such integration on similar boats for other Navies across the world.”
In an company release, emphasizing on its commitment towards India, Sodhi said that ThyssenKrupp is also ready to integrate any weapon system, including ‘BrahMos’ onto the latest 214 Class Submarines for the upcoming project P75 (I) project.