May 29, 2023

State of Submarine Forces in ASEAN 2023

Shawn Chung has kindly written 8 articles for publishing on Submarine Matters over the next 2 weeks. This is the first generalised article and the next 7 articles deal with the 7 ASEAN countries that have, or will have, submarines. Most links are in string form but when embedded in text they are bolded. So Shawn writes:


Several news articles (below) sparked my interest in crafting a brief update on the State of Submarine Forces in ASEAN 2023. This is because 6 of the 10 ASEAN members (Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar) are/will be submarine operators in 2023, with the Philippines potentially joining the submarine club in future.

 

The news articles are:


https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/submarine-invincible-singapore-navy-asian-china-defence-3186236

 

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/as-us-china-rivalry-heats-up-southeast-asian-countries-in-race-of-acquiring-submarines-articleshow.html

https://www.asianmilitaryreview.com/2022/06/submarine-status/

https://www.nti.org/analysis/resource-collections/submarine-proliferation-resource-collection/

Arranged in chronological order of submarine service. I will not go into the specifics of each submarine class, rather the main emphasis is on deals, recent history, some political and market issues. I have used OSINT for references.

Shawn Chung

May 26, 2023

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