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About 2.5 billion USD and 7.5 billion USD respectively. Thoughts @Gessler et al?

Some reading I got into about some background details: https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/195361/an-unlikely-partnership-bangabandhu-and https://www.jamhoor.org/read/2018/5/25/mao-lana-bhashani-maoism-and-the-unmaking-of-pakistan

BD didnt get the period of time to invest in sound neutral+professional institutionalism (to be its own inertia versus sociopolitical currents and executive overreach etc). It is long conversation I had in past with Bosnian friend here too....he saw just what frayed in Yugoslavia in 1980s once...

Thanks for the time you invested in this long detailed reply!

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/eye-on-china-pakistan-india-fast-tracks-deal-for-31-us-hunter-killer-drones/articleshow/112505123.cms

Type -218 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_submarine

https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/boeing-partners-with-aiesl-to-service-indian-navy-s-p-8i-aircraft-124081301219_1.html US aerospace giant Boeing has partnered with India's AI Engineering Services Ltd to provide overhaul services to the Indian Navy's fleet of 12 P-8I...

I understand where you coming from. But there's a reality we got from nature of birthing Bangladesh in first place....it goes to before Pakistan came into existence if you trace careers of Suhrawardy etc, what was Mujib role in all that. That's what I meant by certain dysfunctional intensity...

Yeah 212CD is what I meant earlier by just "212".... anyway lets see what materialises in end like you say.

Not really a logistical nightmare. The capital machinery is pretty much all the same in end with some updates maybe (that will need to happen anyway).... there may be some new addendums of worker training and new manufacturing IP, but largely its always get what you pay for in this realm anyway...

Obviously since the SSBN program and following SSN program will not be a ToT collab in first place. There was some Russian consultancy involved, thats it. That was the whole point of that particular shipyard to begin with too....along with specific capacity allotted there and whatever future...

MDL? Yeah, pretty much only one in India. They made two U-209's (and the follow on 2 if executed, but they were cancelled due to corruption case back then) under earlier ToT with HDW (HDW made the first two in Germany) and 6 Scorpenes after it with DCN ToT. They are trying to finalise an...

Yah, supposedly with some updates to the design with U-212 features. Have to wait and see. @Anmdt any thoughts?

Looks like the Germans and Mazagon have won the tender: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/indian-navy-approves-mazagon-dock-build-6-submarines-german-collaboration-2580737-2024-08-12