UglyMowgli
07-19-08, 09:12 AM
f you never suspected Germany and the U.S. were linked at the hip, unravelling an arcane bit of submarine history should supply indisputable evidence. Thanks to Norman Polmar, we not only have another clue as to why the Australia Submarine Corporation came to build the problematic Collins class (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_class_submarine), but we know better how Germany's Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft probably got to build Israel's Dolphin class (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_class_submarine), and a portion of South Korea's nine diesel-electric Chang Bogo-class subs while several American shipyards closed during the 1970s and 1980s.
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story continue here : http://aquilinefocus.blogspot.com/2008/07/submarine-mafia-and-hms-gtland.html
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story continue here : http://aquilinefocus.blogspot.com/2008/07/submarine-mafia-and-hms-gtland.html