Procurement tracker
Cost talks concluded and Finance Ministry cleared the ~₹70,000 crore deal; contract signature awaits final CCS approval, reported imminent.
India's largest conventional submarine procurement — six AIP-equipped, Type 214-derived boats to be built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai with Germany's thyssenkrupp Marine Systems — has cleared cost negotiations and Finance Ministry approval and now sits with the Cabinet Committee on Security for final clearance before contract signature, which Berlin expects around mid-2026. Urgency has sharpened since Pakistan commissioned the first of eight Chinese-built Hangor-class AIP submarines in April 2026 and sailed it into Karachi in June. First P-75I delivery is expected roughly seven years after the contract is signed.
Updated 29 Jun 2026 · updates logged below as they happen
Changelog
Reports placed the India-Germany submarine deal on the cusp of final Cabinet Committee on Security approval — the last step before contract signature — with the project now widely cited at ₹80,000 crore.
Pakistan's first Chinese-built Hangor-class submarine, PNS/M Hangor, arrived at Karachi to a ceremonial naval welcome, beginning operational service from home port.
India's Finance Ministry approved the ₹70,000-crore Project-75I programme, leaving CCS clearance as the final administrative step before contract signing.
Pakistan Navy commissioned PNS/M Hangor — first of eight Yuan-derived AIP submarines in a ~$5 billion programme with China — at a ceremony in Sanya attended by President Asif Ali Zardari.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said he was 'very, very confident' the roughly €8 billion P-75I contract would be signed within three months, days after Rajnath Singh visited the TKMS shipyard in Kiel.
Indian Navy and TKMS concluded cost negotiations at roughly $9 billion for six submarines — negotiated down from an original bid of over ₹1.2 lakh crore — with signing expected early in the next fiscal year.
With the L&T–Navantia bid rejected as non-compliant for lacking sea-proven AIP, the MoD opened the sole remaining MDL–TKMS commercial bid and invited MDL to first-round price negotiations.
MoD issued the P-75I Request for Proposal to shortlisted strategic partners MDL and L&T for six AIP-fitted submarines, then valued at ₹43,000 crore.
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Skyroot's Vikram-1 reached a 450 km orbit on its first attempt — making India the third country with private orbital launch capability, and giving New Delhi something it has never had: a second, sovereign road to space.
At the BIMSTEC security chiefs' meeting in Delhi, India's NSA told Myanmar's counterpart plainly that its soil must not host anti-India insurgency, arms smuggling or infiltration — pressure on a neighbour whose ungoverned spaces have become the Northeast's biggest external security problem.
Pakistan lost 38 security personnel in a week inside its own largest province — and its army's answer, again, was to blame India without producing evidence. The reflex says more about Rawalpindi's unwillingness to face its Balochistan failure than about anything New Delhi has done.
Pakistan's 276th Corps Commanders' Conference pledged 'all measures necessary' to secure the country's share of Indus waters, formally binding the army to a dispute that began when India put the 1960 treaty in abeyance.
Ten domestic firms have bid for the Indian Air Force's 87-UAV programme worth over Rs 30,000 crore — a field wide enough to test whether India's private drone base can absorb, and survive, a contest this large.
A sustainment milestone at Koraput underscores the depth of domestic engine MRO — and renews calls for a dedicated indigenous aero-engine mission before the AL-31FP line winds down.
At 14.5 kg with a 2.5 km reach, the indigenous fire-and-forget MP-ATGM is set for Indian Army induction after ten-plus years of development, closing an infantry anti-tank gap and trimming reliance on imported missiles.
A change of command atop the 1.3-million-strong Indian Army hands General Dhiraj Seth the task of turning his 'VIJAY' vision of a technology-driven, future-ready force into decisions, budgets and timelines.
Open-source analysts now count more than 30 J-35s, with output accelerating. In South Asia the figure reads as a countdown: Pakistan signed for the jet in May, and India's own fifth-generation fighter has yet to fly.
India's largest conventional submarine programme is reportedly one Cabinet decision from contract — and the pending technology transfer review, not the headline price, will decide what the deal is actually worth.
The first of eight Chinese-built AIP boats — and reported plans for Pakistan's first Bay of Bengal submarine deployment since 1971 — sharpen an undersea contest that India's delayed P-75I programme has yet to answer.
Construction of the world's largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo is moving fast near the Arunachal border. The choices India makes while the concrete is still being poured will shape the Brahmaputra for decades.
The charge sheet against a former DRDO lab chief describes a Pakistani honey-trap that reached classified missile data — forcing decisions on how India vets and watches the scientists holding its most sensitive secrets.
Outgoing Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi cites over 1,100 annual India-China military interactions as the Army formally dismisses reports of PLA camps in Upper Subansiri as 'incorrect and without any basis'.
Pakistan says its 29 June border operations killed at least 29 fighters; the Taliban government counts 36 civilian dead — irreconcilable tallies from the heaviest acknowledged cross-border action in a fortnight.
Israel's Rafael is negotiating with multiple Indian private-sector defence firms to manufacture the Iron Dome's Tamir interceptor in India, with output earmarked for Israeli domestic demand and export orders.
INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray joined the fleet together on 21 June — a GRSE production milestone underscoring India's shift from defence buyer to builder as China widens its Indian Ocean footprint.
