[goldorak]

Originally Posted by SandyCaesar

What I want to know, however, is their sonar capabilities. I know that this is a very sensitive topic, but theoretically wouldn't nukes have the edge here? Nukes can house a towed-array, which admittedly wouldn't be that useful in a littoral environment, and can have loads of hull-arrays, which diesel boats simply don't have (one or two conformal arrays--not enough to range-gate passively).

Say again !!

Sonar suite

The vessel's sonar suite includes a long-range passive cylindrical array, an intercept sonar, active sonar, distributed array, flank array, a high-resolution sonar for mine and obstacle avoidance and a towed array.

Source : http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/scorpene/

Its not about the type 212/214 but the french equivalent scorpene.