[SmithL]

Steely-eyed Killers of the Deep Active Ping

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These boats, and newer Diesel Boats, are great for coastal defense and patrolling smaller seas, but if you're going to prowl the planet, you need a reactor.

[Doohickey]

I've more time that that in my rack at test depth...

[BIGLOOK]

Do you Bubbleheads consider the North Sea blue water?

But in the spirit of the moment, Congratulations to the German Navy for remaining submerged for two weeks. (And BZ to the SSN tailing them.)

[wolf78]

"These boats, and newer Diesel Boats, are great for coastal defense and patrolling smaller seas, but if you're going to prowl the planet, you need a reactor."

Yeah, but they're ideal for, say, the mediterranean, and that's also the reason why Israel is going to get at least another two of those boats. They have no use for big nuclear powered subs, but two weeks submerged is plenty of time to enhance Israels second-strike-capacity and to make to make Iran think twice about pissing off the Israelis.

The first three for the Israeli navy were conventional diesel-powered subs, the new ones already have the fuel cell AIP-enhancements. For more information, also see:

http://www.dolphin.org.il/

[dread78645]

These boats, and newer Diesel Boats, are great for coastal defense and patrolling smaller seas, but if you're going to prowl the planet, you need a reactor.

It's been a few years since Germany had any plans concerning the planet.