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The records of the German submarine fleet (Google translated from German)
Die Welt ^ | April 1, 2013 | Florian Stark

Posted on 03/31/2013 10:01:26 PM PDT by cunning_fish

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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Why does Germany need U-Boats? Why build them at all? Who are they going to fight?

We use our U-boats for placing Navy Seals in harms way. Perhaps they have similar ideas.

Smaller subs have less draft and can get the swimmers closer to shore.

If you are going to build a sub for clandestine ops you might as well put some armaments on the boat to give potential enemies something to think about.

21 posted on 04/01/2013 6:09:47 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Why does Germany need U-Boats? Why build them at all? Who are they going to fight?

Countries that Germany sold the Type 209 submarine to (1971-2008): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Equador, Greece, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, Venezuela.

That's only one type of submarine. They have several others they have sold to other clients such as Israel, Egypt, Italy and Portugal.

22 posted on 04/01/2013 6:28:01 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I love it when spell check selects every single word in my post.)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

Babelfish translation?


23 posted on 04/01/2013 9:50:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

“a big ole magnetic field signature”

In addition to the heat signature.


24 posted on 04/01/2013 1:29:19 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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You left out Switzerland, Uzbekistan, & Mongolia.

;^)


25 posted on 04/02/2013 9:34:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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