tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post4267993288478271386..comments2024-03-29T21:56:20.645+11:00Comments on Submarine Matters & Australian Nuclear Weapons: Germans sinking Kockums Swedish sub maker?Pete2http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134037393078707072noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-4434503035715150092014-03-03T11:52:26.686+11:002014-03-03T11:52:26.686+11:00Very relevant comments. The problem for any buyers...Very relevant comments. The problem for any buyers of Kockums submarines today is the lack of interest from it´s german owners to succeed. Not the technology in itself.<br /><br />In light of the disastrous problems with the HDW U214-series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_214_submarine#International_setbacks) ThyssenKrupp would committed political suicide in Germany if they would have allowed Kockums to go live with export of the A26.<br />However from the perspective of for example South Korea where HDW/ThyssenKrupp formally prevented Kockums to present a bid, it can be questioned if the result was in the best interest of the customer.<br /><br />As claimed from several sources HDW was not just planning to get rid of a competitor, but also to get hold of Kockums technology. It was if course no secret when the business was done that the patents where in the formal hands of the Swedish navy (FMV), but clearly HDW and later ThyssenKrupp had expected more “flexibility” how to interprete the contracts.<br /><br />Considering this background its clearly interesting that as late as February 2014 media reported that ThyssenKrupp actually had demanded that Sweden should give access to include Kockums technology in German boats as a part of deal to get the construction underway for the Swedish order of the A26, as the German owners until today has delayed the project with more than a year.<br /><br />However, it´s clear that Sweden was naive selling Kockums to a competitor in the 90´ts. They expected to get better access to export markets without investing i an international market organization (and internatinal Project management as learned from the Collons Project), when they of course should have realized that a comepetitor dont have any intrest to have a Company building competing Products for the same markets.Joakim Wohlfeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00352688029434756970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-10998326996544475312013-11-19T11:14:13.756+11:002013-11-19T11:14:13.756+11:00Hi Anonymous
Thanks for your comments. They are s...Hi Anonymous<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. They are so significant I have placed them in the body of this post.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />PetePetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02624742078679760819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19245896.post-16896824053273968862013-11-14T22:31:58.604+11:002013-11-14T22:31:58.604+11:00"This is a matter that's vital to our nat...<i>"This is a matter that's vital to our national security," </i>--- So why Kockums was offered to a German company first time? What is the problem for Sweden to buy German submarines like Poland did?<br /><br /><i>"Earlier this year, however, Australia and Sweden did ink a deal allowing for Kockums to take part in the project, dubbed SEA 1000, which calls for the building of 12 new submarines."</i><br />This is quite wrong. The deal was Sweden donated intellectual property rights to Australia. <br />http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-sweden-burying-the-hatchet/<br />Now Australia tries to build with these rights a new Collins-class on its own - good luck!<br /><br />The Collins-class disaster was partly related to the inability of Kockums to control the project properly. TKMS owned HDW has much more knowledge with license building of submarines. It worked for South Korea.<br /><br />Why should TKMS allow Kockums to design a new A26 submarine while HDW at the same time works on Type210mod? Would GM allow Opel to design quite the same type of car Holden is working on?<br /><br />Kockums makes fine Corvettes like the UK makes fine wings for Airbus. Great Britain will never again produce big passenger aircraft on its own.<br /><br />How well of is Saab Automobile today without a big company in the background? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com