USS Blueback SS-581 was the last US Navy diesel-electric boat.
She was commissioned 16MAY1959.
Since then, we (America) have been building exclusively nuclear boats.
Posted on 03/17/2015 6:31:49 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Swedish defence giant Saab has accused the government of spreading lies about its submarine building capability.
The head of Sweden’s defence purchasing agency, Lena Erixon, has written to her counterpart at the Defence Materiel Organisation in Canberra, Harry Dunstall, to protest about the denigration of Sweden’s submarine industry led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Ms Erixon also revealed that at no stage had Australian officials requested detailed design details from Sweden or included any technical experts in various government delegations to visit the country.
Mr Abbott told Parliament that only France, Germany and Japan could build the submarines.
“The last Australian submarine came off the production line in about 2001 … the last Swedish submarine came off the production line in 1996, so it’s almost two decades since Sweden built a submarine,” Mr Abbott said.
Ms Erixon strongly objected to that assertion saying that Sweden had maintained a “full capacity to design and build submarines both for Sweden and fore export over the last 20 years.”
“To state that we would offer obsltete technology from the 1960s and 1980s is simply not true,” she said.
Sweden was excluded from the process to provide Australia’s future submarine despite the fact that the navy’s existing submarine fleet is based on a Swedish design from Saab-Kockums.
The $20 billion plus contest will be conducted between Japan, Germany and France.
The strongly worded letter dated March 2 accesses Australia of ignoring the possibil
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Don't we build submarines here in the U.S.?
Not the diesel-electric subs that Australia wants.
USS Blueback SS-581 was the last US Navy diesel-electric boat.
She was commissioned 16MAY1959.
Since then, we (America) have been building exclusively nuclear boats.
We only build nuke boats...
But we should be building non-nukes as well, whether diesel or AIP...quieter and cheaper. Although they have their limitations, there are very real practical applications for them.
Diesels might seem like a good idea until actual war breaks out and then you need to maintain a continual supply line to them. Nukes are pretty autonomous.
Aren’t these guys the ones that make subs so quiet they scare the US navy?
Diesels would be better for domestic coastal defense, freeing up nukes for forward deployment....
And diesels can be produced faster.
A submarine will soon be the only place for a few Swedes at least to escape the muslim hordes.
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