<span style="color: #222222;">Thailand's purchase of a Chinese submarine may be cancelled after a German company expressed its inability to supply the required propulsion system. "A massive government-to-government submarine procurement deal faces the chopping block if China is unable to fit the engines specified in the purchase agreement," Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha warned last Monday.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Prayut was responding to reporters' questions after the Bangkok Post reported that a German company had refused to supply MTU396 diesel engines to China for installation in the S26T Yuan-class submarine being built for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN).<br />''<br />''According to the media outlet, the Prime Minister directed the navy to do everything possible to complete the deal.</span>