Navantia begins the weapons phase of the S-81 (Photo The Opinion of Murcia)

Agustín Álvarez, director of Navantia in Cartagena, has confirmed that the work of lengthening the first S-80 submarines unit for the Spanish Navy has completed and has advanced that the company will now begin the next phase to reform the interior of the submersible and to equip it with weapons. The new director of the shipyard CartagJanuary, who went to the Regional Assembly yesterday to make an institutional visit to the president of the Autonomous Chamber, Rosa Peñalver, also spoke of the other three units that the Navy commissioned the company. In this way, Álvarez indicated that although it has started the construction of the first unit, the S-81 'Isaac Peral', it has not yet been discussed with the Ministry of Defense whether the production of the four submersible planned will be simulated or if on the contrary they will be done successively, one after the other, as the tasks are completed. The head of Navantia in C artagena also recalled that after overcoming the critical review of the design of the project last July, the new deadlines for S-81 Isaac Peral are to be launched in 2020 and made available to the Navy in 2021.