Navy to get eight new submarines
By
Salman Siddiqui
Published: December 1, 2018
PHOTO: REUTERS
KARACHI: Pakistan in collaboration with China will manufacture eight submarines for its maritime force.
“The production will start in one to one-and-a-half-year time,” said Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works Project Director Commodore M Jahanzeb Ahsan at the IDEAS 2018, a four-day long event held at the Karachi Expo Centre.
“Half of the eight submarines of advanced version will be developed in China while the other half in Pakistan,” said Commodore Ahsan.
Pakistan and China developed understanding for the manufacturing of the submarines sometime in 2011, he said.
The top three countries with the highest number of submarines in the world are; North Korea with 86, China 73 and US 66, according to
www.globalfirepower.com.
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