Pakistan to manufacture advanced versions of submarines for Navy

Pakistan to manufacture advanced versions of submarines for Navy

KARACHI - Pakistan Navy will manufacture in collaboration with China eight advanced versions of submarines.

As per media report, 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.