India’s Financial Expressreported late February 2023:
“Germany is offering next-generation submarines to India, worth a $5.2 billion deal to jointly build six conventional submarines. While there is no official confirmation, the talks over the submarine took place during [German] Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit, it is learnt.” It is unclear which AIP submarine Germany is offering – the current technology Type 214 or future (and much larger) Type 212CD.
If true Germany might be offering the only competition against South Korea’s DSME Type 214 variant (Germany might object that DSME is on-selling German designed 214 technology). To avoid any German objection DSME may be offering the SK designed DSME-3000.
The rumour mill is that Russia’s Rubin Amur-1650, Spain’s Navantia S-80 Plus and France’s Naval Group Scorpene (of conventional Barracuda) are also in 75(I) contention. Yet those three countries/companies have failed to meet the major 75(I) criteria of having produced an efficient, mature, modern, AIP with proven operation at sea.
More see Wiki.
Meanwhile arch-enemy Pakistan is relying on efficient China to perhaps deliver 4 x China assembled Hangor-class Yuan-variants to Pakistan by 2024. Pakistan may complete the final 4 Hangors by 2028 . All 8 x Hangors may have AIP.