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The Invincible (Type 218SG) is a class of submarines with air-independent propulsion ordered by the Republic of Singapore Navy from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. The Invincible class is based on the Type 216 concept submarine of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft.
This the Gotland class the Improved Kilo and the Lada class are the best non nuclear subs on the market.
unit cost:900million usd…horizon class frigates €1.08 billion..yes,this sub must be beast…
Still has no cruise missiles.
http://bastion-karpenko.ru/VVT/218SG_180117_02.jpg
And which would that be? US “upgraded’ Tomahawk cruise missile? Hardly worth of building in as extra expense. Excellent German torpedoes are plenty. Only Russia has conventional “attack” subs I think.
They could use french SCALP (there is submarine version for “Barracudas”). Korea (South) has their own cruise missiles for new submarines. Singapore can buy korean missiles and control systems.
Is it good…. SCALP? Subsonic I presume..
deadly in its subsonic league..after launch it follows low altltude with the help of its perfect surface scanners..
OK all that no doubt in quality of electronics, but…how “low” ….a very “low” low?
no info about that at open sources..and its range is complicated some says:250 km the other:350 km..
You know why I was asking ? To compare it with the Russian Kalibr or Yakhont-Oniks (super sonic) and their sea skimming flight capabilities. Already judging by the range french missile is not in the same league and with Yakhont in the speed as well.
yakhont-oniks top predator a guarantee of Russian sovereignty at black sea..you are comparing ww golf and aston martin vdb11 v12
ı dont think any ciws can find and destroy oniks…phalanx are not capable against oniks..
Sea Sparrow?…only if they get the signature on the radar of course. But can’t do much against swarm of 6-7 missiles
they cant react on time..impossible..
thanks!
Forgot to mention, zionists have diesel subs with cruise missiles, variation of 214th project, “Dolphin” type, 16 torpedoes and 5 CM launched from torpedo tube. Need to separate land strike CM with anti-ship missiles. Japanese submarines can launch “Harpoons”, may be ASROC too, but not long-range CM.
exactly and İsrael very good at minimalizing the objects which they could mount so many sistems to 90 m corvette saar 6 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3be31582ad2d1980e5d1ea5f02f47efdb293e45e832605256f8e48de29e8f439.jpg
It’s german corvette. Look at project 21631 or 22800, both less 1000 tons, can sail through rivers. Modernization will make them 200-300 tons heavier, but they will have 16 (instead 8) shafts for “Caliber” missiles.
“Dolphin”class, ‘nuke capable’..nuke tipped missiles tech i possession of Israel(so much about “non proliferation” agreements between Russia and US…the capability trumpeted by Israel to spread the word to all the Arabs and specially Iran as warning. From what I know they got those subs practically for free from Germany…or at least some of them. And I have no doubt that they have even the latest “stealth” cruise missile tech fiom US in their own production.
Looks like they are using the same old “Tomahawk”, because there is no other missile for submarines in the US. They can’t buy other strategic missiles due political reasons – no one will sell, may be except Korea and France with their NCM (1000 km range, further development of SCALP). SCALP is not strategic.
“SCALP is not strategic.”
I believe you that… if its range is only 250 – 350 km
wrong..SCALP is not strategic for russia but for us at the hands of Greece it is strategic..
It is. 250 km is the range of fire. https://missilery.info/missile/scalp
So may be there were NCMs striking on Syria, not SCALPs, need to check, but lazy.)
The link shows a SCALP-EG, which is the aircraft launched version.
Subs carry the MdCN with a max. range of 1k to 1,4k km: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_de_croisi%C3%A8re_naval
“Wikipedia” is not for me. Read further, we have already discussed all possible variants and their parameters.
All cruise missiles subsonic. SCALP has good electronic components. It wasn’t down by electronic countermeasures as “Tomahawks” 3 years ago in Syria. Few tens of “Tomahawks” got lost in a desert on their way to targets during two strikes. 1 or 2 such missiles been found later and delivered for research.
brahmos is also classified as cruise-missiles but with its supersonic ramjet…
Read carefully. Cruise missiles for land strikes. Anti-ship CMs is different class. SCALP is for land strikes.
All cruise missiles thats why ı wrote…np
My commentary was first, and I wrote about land strikes, read with attention, please.
np interesting to read..
So what is Brahmos used for “land strikes”which is super sonic, Oniks tech (not subsonic) if not cruise missile? I know all those stories when”new” Tomahawk’s have failed horribly in Syria. There was even US latest “stealth” JSDAM or whatever similar stupid abbreviation it was, of their absurdly long names that they have now… that missile has failed as well
It’s not strategic weapon as “Tomahawk” or land strike “Caliber”. Ant-ship version of “Caliber” can fly up to 300 km instead 2000 km for land strike CM, feel the difference. Further modernization of “Caliber” with over 4000 km range will be subsonic also. Faster speed means less radius. Turbojet engine can’t give very fast speed, but it’s very economical.
Yes I know all that but aren’t they going to have Yakhont on more than 300 km? Specially those air launched (like Brahmos) It is nuke tipped option capability so interesting as anti aircraft carrier weapon thus longer range would be great advantage. If they can “Caliber” double range why not Yakhont? Of course once becomes hyper sonic ( Brahmos 2 )range will go over 1000 km like Zircon.
With probable 800 km range for “Yahont-M” it’s still anti-ship missile. And we are talking about ground strikes since I started this discussion with words about 218th project, which has no CM for ground attacks. 3,2 billion euro contract for 4 submarines, 800 million per one, it’s too much for the submarine without large cruise missiles. May be it has no missiles at all. Can’t find any information.
Thanks Anton
these subs has’t designed for deep-strikes..launching hwt,acoustic decoy is their priority,aıp also supplies them not to be detected..invisible echo signals..this is an invisible frigate-destroyer killer and can be upgraded to anti-submarine by the countries who has the ability of confuse the torpedo by simulating the acoustic of platform.
My point is simple – it’s overpriced. Such submarine should cost 2-3 times less.
overpriced agree..
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:)) Racist prick, caused me wet myself!
I take it AIP submarines are a hybrid system. Using O2 and H2 tanks to power a fuel cell (extremely low noise), but still have a diesel motor and will use snorkels on occasion, so they have a decent range?
I always cringe when they call a ship “invincible”. It’d be pretty ironic if it were destroyed.
*cries in spanish*
Why Singapore spends so much money for military? It’s useless, because the city has small resistance potential. One massive strike – and there is no port for subs, aerodrome for planes etc. The only reason is to add this potential to other (to australian for example or expeditionary corpus of another anglosaxonian state) in a case of aggression. Singapore can’t stand alone against others. These money (10 billion dollars per year) could be spent more useful.
They do it because US say so. It is how they pay a US gangster for his “protection”.
You read the text? They buy the subs from GERMANY…
So?! Tell me the name of US conventional sub model than? It does NOT exist !!!
It has to be one of the NATO countries that’s only requirement !
Like you Germans don’t have clue that you are members of the same gang?
After that comes US and tells Germany : See?
We bring you all the time new good customers, what could be better than NATO?! European defense is joke ! You would have to spend hundreds of billions to replace US logistics capabilities and nuke umbrella we provide and not to mention customers we bring to you!
Partly true. Everyone should pay to the global gangster. Though they are spending a lot to research own projects. They can’t produce all parts, need to buy foreign ones and co-operate in research. Easier and cheaper is to buy a finished product in this case. It has the reason in the case of preparation to war, when you need to boost defense industry at any price. Australia does the same, their land forces and fleet soon will be at the same level England has, but without nuclear weapon. Who can invade Australia? But they are spending ~25 billions annually instead of paying their huge external debt – 1,7 trillion USD, it’s far over 100% of GDP. Indonesia, the closest big state, spends less 10 billion for military.
OK except I was talking only about the sale of the weapons to those outside of NATO or any kind of alliance with US. Even without any formal military cooperation agreement with US they are forced into buying things from them. It is absurd that Singapore buys anything because too small to defend themselves and too strategic to be attacked by anybody at all.
But still all you say is true of course.
Subs are perfect for retaliatory strikes.
Who is going to launch a first strike on Singapore, if they know there are 6 subs somewhere under sea capable of launching back cruise missiles massively?
What cruise missiles? This type of submarines has no cruise missiles.
Israel should order 3 more from Germany, we need more subs.
Everybody need these subs.
apparently a capable sub. it is sold to some other nations
These subs dont have missiles with corona virus as we have.