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Rhodes
07-19-10, 05:10 AM
Yesterday, the rtp 1 (national tv channel) transmited a news report about the last mission of the portuguese submarine, NRP Barracuda, the oldest sub in service in the world, 42 years.

http://ww1.rtp.pt/blogs/programas/linhadafrente/?k=1-parte-do-Linha-da-Frente-de-2010-07-18.rtp&post=9747
TLAM Strike
07-19-10, 09:34 AM
... the oldest sub in service in the world, 42 years.

Oldest sub in NATO.

Oldest sub in the world is ROCS Hai Shih SS-791 (Fmr. USS Cutlass SS-478) launched 5 November 1944. Still in service today.
Platapus
07-19-10, 01:14 PM
Launched in 44 and has been in continuous service since? Wow

I guess they got their money's worth out of that boat.
Rhodes
07-19-10, 04:54 PM
Oldest sub in NATO.

Oldest sub in the world is ROCS Hai Shih SS-791 (Fmr. USS Cutlass SS-478) launched 5 November 1944. Still in service today.

I thought so, but I was just saying what the reporter said, besides some errors.
By the way, did you say that a daphné class sub is a ww2 tecnology submarine?
antikristuseke
07-19-10, 05:02 PM
EML Lembit was launched in 1936, it is still technically in service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EML_Lembit
TLAM Strike
07-19-10, 05:27 PM
I thought so, but I was just saying what the reporter said, besides some errors. Reporters never know anything.

By the way, did you say that a daphné class sub is a ww2 tecnology submarine? I don't think I said that. :hmmm: If I did I was slightly wrong, the Daphne' is based on the German Type XXIII much like our Tang class is based on the Type XXI however the Daphne is much newer.

Its hull design was a little dated but she was about generation ahead of the WWII boats. She is equivalent in development to the Romeo and Foxtrot classes of the USSR or the Oberon Class of the UK (Oberon slightly newer and more capable).
Rhodes
07-19-10, 05:41 PM
Reporters never know anything.

I don't think I said that. :hmmm: If I did I was slightly wrong, the Daphne' is based on the German Type XXIII much like our Tang class is based on the Type XXI however the Daphne is much newer.

Its hull design was a little dated but she was about generation ahead of the WWII boats. She is equivalent in development to the Romeo and Foxtrot classes of the USSR or the Oberon Class of the UK (Oberon slightly newer and more capable).

No, you did not. But the reporter said! :haha: I did a strange look when he said that, like whaaa??? But I think that's something that every one here thinks about our subs, that they are from ww2!