SINGAPORE - Singapore has inked a deal with German corporation ThyssenKrupp to purchase two 'Type 218SG' submarines which will be delivered from 2020, Singapore's Defence Ministry said Monday in a statement posted on its website.
The contract was signed on Nov 29 and includes a logistics package and the training of local crew in Germany.
According to the statement, the German submarines will have significantly improved capabilities and be equipped with air-independent propulsion which 'enables a submarine to operate at low speed without snorting' among other tactical benefits.
The Type 218SG submarines, together with two Swedish Archer-class vessels, will replace the four aging Challenger-class submarines built in Sweden in the 1960s and sold to Singapore in the 1990s.
Singapore bought the Archer-class submarines secondhand from the Swedish Navy in 2005, but the vessels have only been in service for the last two years.
The city-state launched its submarine programme in 1997.
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