Global technology, indigenised in India

Framework agreement as industrial partner for various critical equipment programmes. Naval Group designed and licenses the Scorpene-class submarine, commissioned with the navies of Brazil, Chile, Malaysia and India. CFF holds Naval Group quality certification for platform systems installed in Kalvari-class boats at build.

The relationship began with P75 Scorpene fourteen years ago and has deepened through every successive refit cycle. CFF is active at every Refit at Naval Dockyard Mumbai and Naval Dockyard Karwar in which Naval Group platform systems are involved.

The P75(AS) programme, led by Naval Group, extends this relationship into a new generation of submarine design.

The institutional knowledge CFF has accumulated on these boats — hull by hull, refit by refit at the submarine integration stage — has been built over years of continuous involvement.

Teaming agreement for the indigenous manufacture of sonar systems for the Indian Navy. Atlas Elektronik, part of TKMS Group, is one of the world’s principal suppliers of sonar and underwater systems technology — a supplier to the German Navy, the Royal Navy, and NATO fleets. TKMS Group is the technical collaborator of Mazagon Dockyard where the P75I submarine is to be built.

CFF is Atlas’s designated Indian manufacturing partner, the outcome of a formal technical audit and Transfer of Technology agreement. The partnership exists because Atlas conducted a full audit of CFF’s facility — inspecting processes, material certifications, quality systems, and traceability — and concluded that CFF could manufacture to Atlas standard.

Nereides is a French specialist in submarine communications systems. The partnership with CFF delivers Buoyant Wire Antenna (BWA) and VLF communications technology to India’s submarine fleet. Import substitution was achieved in FY2025.

The significance of the Nereides partnership extends well beyond the current production cycle. Nereides-origin VLF submarine communications technology is positioned as Buyer Recommended Equipment across India’s future submarine pipeline: P75I, P75(AS), and P76.

Every future Indian submarine hull — from the six P75I boats to be contracted, through the P75(AS) programme, to the P76 indigenous design — carries this system. The supply relationship compounds with each new programme and each new hull over the next three decades.