Comparing Submarine Forces of China, US & NK.

Hi Donors

On Thursday July 15, 2021, you would have noticed I emailed the First Special Report to you. It compares the Submarine Forces of China, the US & NK, with extensive use of links to every submarine type used by those countries. I hope you enjoy it. 

If you found the WORD.doc attachment difficult to download I can resend the Report on the face of the Email to you. I will use the double presentation method for future Special Reports.

Donors, please email me direct if you find any errors, debatable numbers (there are some!) or have other follow-up questions.

If any Non-Donors are interested in receiving the Report please contact my at pete74730@yahoo.com.au . Once you subsequently become a Donor by sending me the A$50 donation you can read this Report. Not to mention 11 future Reports and have full access to major articles I write.

I will be emailing an article tomorrow, to Donors, identifying the possible AIP technology Russia has been recently advertizing. Russian descriptions of their so called "new" AIP technology (with lots of facy alternative names for AIP) is so contradictory (Hydrogen or no Hydrogen?) that I need to give it more thought.

Regards

Pete

Full Articles and 12 Special Reports to Donors Only

Submarine Matters International (SMI) will now EMAIL full articles (including the 12 Special Reports) to Donors only. Non-Donors will only be alerted, to what they are missing out on, by Headings on SMI. Donors are overwhelmingly readers who donate $A50 per year (currently approx US$37). There is also a much smaller group who have Donated by way of much information for 5+ years. 

I originally aimed at preventing non-Donors from actually viewing/searching SMI. They will be able to view Old articles but not New articles. New articles will instead by Emailed direct to Donors by me from now on. 

Emailing direct to Donors is also usefull because Blogspot (aka Blogger) plans, this month (July), to terminate the service of automatically Emailing articles (in the form of .PDFs) to readers. Instead I will carry on the Email service, but only for Donors.

I plan to write and distribute (to Donors) more articles than previously.

As I will be in direct email contact with Donors I more easily can tailor the subject matter of articles to Donor needs/requirements. Donors can also send me follow-up questions/comments more discretely than by the Public-(below article)-Comments method provided by Blogspot.

Note that only DONORS, via Email to Pete, at pete74730@yahoo.com.au  can now comment on articles. 

For anyone who still wants to Donate (for Full Articles and for the 12 Special Reports) please contact me at pete74730@yahoo.com.au . I will then send you a Donation invoice.

Regards Pete

Chinese Subs by NATO Reporting Names: Displacement

Hi wispywood2344 and Anonymous thank you for your comments of July 4, 2021 and
July 6 respectively. These comments are below the article Chinese Submarines: Big Modelling Intelligence Gap of July 1, 2021.

I'll assemble most unique information on China's nuclear and conventional submarines in articles to Donors and a Special Report to Donors.

1. I will be using the NATO reporting name system which assigns Chinese dynasty names to Chinese submarines. Hence I don't talk of confusing "Type 039" numbers in identifying Song class or Yuan class conventional subs. Use of NATO reporting names removes the power to control and confuse from the potential enemies - be they Russia or China.  

2.  Instead of the three dimensions of batteries (height, depth and width) I am going to rely more on comparative displacement, in metric tonnes, between submarines. Of course their major components, like batteries, will also be totalled into metric tonnes.

Pete 

Poland Not Buying Subs fom Sweden

Thanks /Kjell for the July 4, 2021 comments that Poland did not want to pay for 32 year old second hand Swedish Sodermanland submarnes.

In addition to the age and cost of the sub's Poland would probably wish to buy standard design subs from a fellow NATO ally rather the Sodermanland (which are effectively ophans/unique) from non-NATO Sweden.

Poland's limited defense budget migh also be committed to funding replacements for its 2 x 40 year old Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates. New frigate options include buying UK Type 31 frigates, maybe from other NATO allies or locally built. Replacement frigates would also likely have the Mk. 41 vertical launch silos capable of firing land attack missiles. Poland saw a need for a submarine based land attack cruise missile (SLCM) capability but if Poland's new frigates have this capability new submarines would be a lower priority acquisition.

Poland eventuallly buying subs from a NATO country (probably France or Germany) would strengthen the NATO alliance and serve as a concrete down payment on protection for Poland from the more powerful NATO countries, like the US, France, Germany or the UK.

TKMS finally sells 212CDs: 4 for Norwegian Navy, 2 for German.

Thanks to /Kjell for the July 9, 2021 comment gleaned from Naval News that:

TKMS "has officially been commissioned to build six identical Type 212CD submarines. The procurement organizations of Norway and Germany signed the corresponding contracts on July 8, 2021.

...Worth approx. 5.5 billion Euros, the order comprises the delivery of 2 subs to the German Navy and 4 to the Norwegian Navy."

Australia's Ash Barty: Wimbledon Champion 2021

Viva Ash :)

Ash Barty wins Wimbledon. How Ash did it.