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What of the Babur integration argument?
Will the scorpene/marlin be able to accommodate or the French willing to modify?
French were willing to modify it according to PN's needs. I don't know about Babur but PN wanted harpoons to be inducted in it rather then the french counterpart, they said they will do it but the induction cost and testing and evaluating cost will be bared my Pakistan. IMO they were not wrong in that. After all if we want to modify something then we should be willing to pay the price. The PN specification also included something about the propeller. They wanted more blades in it. It was rather a very strange request according to the french but they were ready to do it as well.
Right now french are pushing with the marlin deal to go ahead with Pakistan, i think if we play smart, there would be no problem in making the Sub capable of integrating Babur with french help. My 2 cents over it.