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Originally Posted by CaptainCruise
BTW.....speaking of diesel subs being bought and sold, which subs are they buying? I remember the Kilo being a popular choice. What else is on the market?
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Bulding submarines is a highly specialised industrial task which needs a lot of knowledge and longtime experience, therefore you have only a small number of nations building and selling them.
For conventional submarines (SS), these are Russia, France, Sweden, Netherlands, China (not exporting, as far as I know, but they build their own designs in SSN and SS now), and of course Germany. Germany has just signed a deal over three more subs with Israel, Germany also pays one third of the costs (which i do not like, they can buy our boats, but I do not want Germany to pay subventions for it).
Britain and America have given up their former expertise on Diesel submarines. They have an exclusive fetish for SSNs
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