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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
This is remarkable. German engineering and ingenuity is rather impressive.  |
Well ... german invented the modern sub concept.
That's because WWII winners took each one (russians, USA, british and french) some type XXI after the war they could start brand new submarine platforms from this date (and all of them started to built nuke submarines based on german technology)
Fortunatly (for democracy), the WWII ended before type XXI could really enter the war ...
But if you are impressed by actual German engineering, you should be also by French technology in conventionnal subs.
The counterpart of the 214 is the Scorpène, as modern as the 214 with only 31 crew members because of automatisation.
This submarine is state of the art of new SSK technology.
=>
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/scorpene/
http://www.dcn.fr/us/offre/sous-marins/scorpene.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...e/scorpene.htm
some pics =>
http://zone.sousmarins.free.fr/sous-...monde%2021.htm