Indonesia Announces Intent to Purchase two Scorpene Submarines

Indonesia Announces Intent to Purchase two Scorpene Submarines

Indonesia today announced an intent to purchase two Scorpene Submarines from Naval Group of France.

French defence minister, Florence Parly tweeted, “Our cooperation also extends to the naval field: Indonesia has announced an intention to purchase two French-made “Scorpène” submarines.”

The Scorpene submarine decision was announced soon after a contract was signed to purchase 42 Rafale jets between Indonesia and France.

The new generation Scorpene diesel-electric submarines should help France to partly overcome the loss of the Australian contract.

For Indonesia the two submarines should help modernize its submarine fleet.