Sweden’s Gotland-class Subs: AIP pioneers of the Baltic Sea

By Eric Wertheim
October 2023 Proceedings
Vol. 149/10/1,448

[@thunderrun2]

Beautiful subs

[@gandalf1124]

No. They do not burn oxygen.Oxygen can only burn in massive stars. They burn diesel in an environment of oxygen provided from the liquid oxygen.

[@redrust3]

Interesting. They can mine Saint Petersburg and Polyarny and Murmansk. Ukraine has also shut down Sevastopol. Only need the Chinese to overrun Vladivostok. Russia will still have a navy, but it will be stuck in port.

[@phrankus2009]

We need 3 shipyards (at least 2, in the PACRIM) cranking out a cost-reduced version of AIP (Crew of 9~12) for ad Hoc mission groups, in the island chains. I would like to order four, with an option for up to 12 boats. We need these to be delivered by Q4 of 26 and can be fiberglass, with a maximum crush-depth of 300 feet. .. These are to be used like a submersible PT boat, attached to USMC raiders and sensor-shooter construction groups., for "cat-and-mouse" security and attack, in the littorals. These do not need to be expensive ... They can even carry their ordnance external to the pressure-hull (short range strap-ons) ... Think of this class as pimped-out narco-subs, with teeth (service life of about 10 years / total program of 14 years). Trainees can be drawn from the lower half of US Sub School grads, who may have been bounced, or held back, or disqualified, from more stringent billets. They can also deliver small squads of SPECOPS for less complicated ISR-Scout-Recon type missions, as well. >> May be grouped, in various configs, with ESBs, LCS, LAWs, FFGs, and other light craft, small combatants, and drones of all types.

[@phrankus2009]

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