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Originally Posted by Kapitain
i was talking about the new subs like virginia we can only guess her true preformance stats ie im guessing they are a little bit better than the 688's
but as to al'fa and many other russian submarine there are many resorces where i can draw my conclusion as i posted earlier at least four of the sources claimed 750 meters or 700 meters thus emplying that the al'fa can dive between these depths
the older submarine november echo yankee al'fa whiskey ect ect are not as heavily classified as say the new borey or lada and thus those subs info are much more avalible
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The problem with these sources is just that: they CLAIM.
Submarines in pretty much every country, and most certainly countries like Russia, China and all NATO states, are kept under pretty close wraps. Usually, only a handful of selected people knows the true statistics, and that does not include everyone on board, or working on these subs.
Also usually, "placeholder" figures are actually released by these countries, or "leaked" to the public, but these don't even have to be correct relative to each other.
If the U.S. Navy says a Seawolf can reach 25 knots+ while a Los Angeles class can only reach 20 knots+, that is merely a political game - if you get congress to pay these increasingly expensive toys, you better say they are better than the old ones in every regard.
To sum it up, all performance figures of almost all submarines past WWII should be taken with a big dose of salt, and are almost exclusively guesswork or placeholder figures.
Regards,
Robert