Gość: A.L.
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14.12.04, 10:58
To mamy całkiem niezłą podwodną flotkę.
Ciekawe jak to będzie faktycznie z wyposażeniem ich w pociski typu cruise?.
Mogliby również zainstalować w nich napęd niezależny od powietrza. Niemcy
mają już sprawdzone z U212 rozwiązanie, no i ja pomagają finansować to można
trochę poszaleć.
OC Navy Adm. David Ben-Bashat has reportedly confirmed that Israel is to
purchase two more Dolphin-class submarines from Germany and that the contract
will be signed this coming spring.
Speaking at a gathering of the Navy's friendship association, Ben-Bashat said
that the time was ripe for winning German approval for the submarines, which
each cost some $350 million, according to the IDF weekly Bamahane.
Last year, the German government reportedly turned down a request for two
more Dolphin-class submarines. Berlin was reportedly against the sale because
of reports that Israel was equipping them with nuclear-tipped cruise
missiles. Sensitive armaments deliveries need approval from Berlin's
secretive security council.
"Next year a wonderful window of opportunity will be opened because of the
political situation with Germany and Europe," the weekly quoted Ben-Bashat as
telling the gathering. "I hope that then we will sign a contract with Germany
that will allow the addition of two more submarines to the Navy's fleet."
Israel received three diesel/electric Dolphin-class submarines from Germany
in the late 1990s.
The two new submarines would reportedly be built at the Kiel-based
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG, the world's biggest builder of non-nuclear
submarines.
The Dolphin-class submarines are the most expensive platforms in the IDF's
arsenal. Germany donated the first two submarines to Israel as a gift after
the first Gulf War and split the cost of the third.
According to Bamahane, the newer Dolphins will be able to stay submerged for
longer than the present Dolphins.