NEW DELHI — India expects to induct its first Scorpene submarine beginning in 2015, three years behind the original schedule. All six submarines will be in service by 2018 at a revised cost of 235.62 billion rupees ($4.7 billion), nearly a 50-billion-rupee increase from the originally approved cost of 187.98 billion rupees, Defense Minister A.K. Antony tells the lower house of the Indian Parliament.

NEW DELHI — India plans to establish nine defense projects, including a surface-to-air missile (SAM) facility, with an investment of 70 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The SAM project is being built by state-run defense unit Bharat Dynamics Ltd. (BDL) at Ibrahimpatnam in Ranga Reddy district, near the state capital of Hyderabad. The site is likely to become operational in the next three years.

LONDON — China’s role in the global arms trade is changing, with a shift to becoming an exporter rather than a major importer of weapons, according to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).