Indian Navy is set to receive a major boost when the much-awaited Russian Nerpa nuclear attack submarine would join its fleet “in the next few days” on a 10-year lease worth $920 million.
The Akula-II class Nerpa nuclear submarine has finished sea trials and is now ready to be leased to the Indian Navy in the next few days, a Russian engineer said on Wednesday.
“The submarine is now fully ready to carry out its tasks,” a senior executive at the Amur Shipyard, where the submarine was built, was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.
“It will be handed over before the end of the year,” the unnamed official said.