Iranian Submarine

[TteFAboB]

How defended is the SSK's dock?

[Herr_Pete]

Dont the Germans have the most advanced submarine out at the moment, i read somehwere on this site they had the most technoloicaly advanced submarine?

[Sea Demon]

Originally Posted by Herr_Pete

Dont the Germans have the most advanced submarine out at the moment, i read somehwere on this site they had the most technoloicaly advanced submarine?

I'm not sure, but there are a number of subs that could stand in this category. If you want to talk about packing the most new technology per square inch, combined with overall performance, I'm not so sure that the German's latest conventional subs would stand up to that. I do however think that these German subs have some of the most, if not the most innovative propulsion, and quieting measures ever built into a submarine. In their environment, they would be utterly difficult to detect and defeat. While the 212's 214 may be the most advanced in the category of conventional submarines, the Virginia and Astute's are not to be taken lightly by any means. There have been tremendous innovations built into them as well. Of course, they are nuclear subs, and could be taken into another category of submarine as their operations would be different that what the 212 would do.

I think it is truly hard to measure most advanced sub because of the difficulty in knowing what they can actually do in their classified stats. But all in all, I wouldn't be surprised if the German subs had the most innovations built into them, awarding them that honor.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Sea Demon

I'm not sure, but there are a number of subs that could stand in this category. If you want to talk about packing the most new technology per square inch, combined with overall performance, I'm not so sure that the German's latest conventional subs would stand up to that. I do however think that these German subs have some of the most, if not the most innovative propulsion, and quieting measures ever built into a submarine. In their environment, they would be utterly difficult to detect and defeat. While the 212's 214 may be the most advanced in the category of conventional submarines, the Virginia and Astute's are not to be taken lightly by any means. There have been tremendous innovations built into them as well. Of course, they are nuclear subs, and could be taken into another category of submarine as their operations would be different that what the 212 would do.

I think it is truly hard to measure most advanced sub because of the difficulty in knowing what they can actually do in their classified stats. But all in all, I wouldn't be surprised if the German subs had the most innovations built into them, awarding them that honor.

I would put the Swedish Gotland class beside that German type 212/214. Both are a class of their own currently, it seems to me. BTW, the boat the US navy has leased in order to train against it, is a Gotland class. After over one year, or is it even already two?, the Navy still sees the score to nil against it. If you are up against a Gotland or 212, you are most likely sitting on the loosing end of the deal.

Sweden is a top inventor and producer of military equipment. Often they produced a worldwide first in the past, and came up with ideas that were seen in the West just some years later.

[gimpy117]

yeah... iran is playing a war of words, and just trying to make life hard for us by messing around with "new devlopments in tech" (like the enriched Urainium issue). theres no doubt that the sub is using modern tech (at least more modern than other irainian subs) but i also highly doubt it has sonar avoiding tech. probabbly it's a half truth, and, it has design to make it more stealthy than it's predecessors.

in a nutshell, iran is just screwing with us, heck maybe they don't even have it deployed in the gulf at all and want us to go on a wild goose chase. (maybe they don't even have it at all and it's just a dressed up older sub)