Thailand To Buy Chinese Submarines

First Attack Vessel Set For Delivery In Six Years,media Reports Say

Thailand signed an agreement on Friday to import Chinese-made attack submarines.

China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, one of the Chinese Navy's biggest contractors, announced on its website on Monday that the agreement to export the S26T submarine was signed in Beijing by Admiral Luechai Ruddit, chief-of-staff of the Royal Thai Navy, and Xu Ziqiu, chairman of China Shipbuilding and Offshore International Co, the trade arm of CSIC.