Just found this:
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A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German government has known about Israel's nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-836671.html
the complete story is going to be published tomorrow as cover story for the next issue. Could be quiet interesting.
Personally, i'm not really suprised. Though no doubt it's gonna be a big deal over here since Germany is the supplier and our government has heavily subsidized the building of these subs while all the while stating they had no information on nukes on the subs. But really, is anyone suprised they deploy them on subs a second strike capability?
What are your thoughts on this?
Btw: It may seem irrelevant, but it nontheless bothers me: In the picture the sub looks like a Type 212A rather than a Dolphin (planes on the sail instead on the bow like in the other pictures). Is it because it's the AIP equipped updated version or is it just some jounalist putting random sub pics?