Purchase of six used submarines approved: Yingluck
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The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the naval proposal to buy six U-206 submarines, worth Bt6.9 billion, from Germany, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said.
“The naval procurement project has been approved,” she said.
The approval came as the last minute before the deal would expire on September 30.
The six submarines would be decommissioned by the German Navy. Four would be refurbished before the deployment in the Gulf of Thailand and two are slated for spare parts.
