Within the framework of the government cooperation programme and industrial between Italy and Germany relating to the class of U-212A submarines, Fincantieri has signed with the Directorate of Naval Armaments of the General Secretariat of Defence and Directorate National Armaments team a contract for assistance on request of the boats of the German Navy. The contract will have five-year duration and will replicate the model of assistance to request that Fincantieri operates on the boats of the Navy Italian, i.e. intervening on call to ensure the most High performance of the drives.

The U-212A Program was born with an agreement between the Ministries of Defence of Italy and Germany in 1996 and derives from the need for Italian Navy to have a new class of submarines responding to modern operational requirements. The path of international cooperation was taken by way of of the extensive consonances between the needs of the armed forces of the two Countries for both operational requirements and timing realization. The U-212A fleet of the Italian Navy counts four Unity, the German one counts six.