TKMS Type 212CD (Victoria class replacement megathread)

[Ganon91]

I'm not as negative, as it's in Germany's interest not to screw this up given their aim to be a major sub supplier in the West (Korea, just by location, is always going be more drawn to supplying customers in the Asian region)

 

[Czech_pivo]

I can't post the article here given the source but the media are already, if not jumping then hinting broadly at, the "we chose an unproven design over a boat that's already operational" angle. There will be more. I would expect much more at least until we ink the deal with TKMS.

The same can be said about the Type 26 - unproven ship vs the FREMM.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Not very positive with this stuff, are you, lol

Is it that obvious ?

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Wait, explain that to me. How could we have 12 subs before we have fifteen Rivers-ships are a lot more complicated that a surface boat, so should we not have all the Rivers sooner?

Irving is producing one ship at a time with nine ships being completed by 2040. So that works out to one ship every three years. While TKMS will be able produce 4+ boats at the same time with 5-6 years per boat.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Irving is producing one ship at a time with nine ships being completed by 2040. So that works out to one ship every three years. While TKMS will be able produce 4+ boats at the same time with 5-6 years per boat.

As well TKMS will have 2 production facilities- able to work on 8+ boats at a time. How many Rivers concurrently will Irving have the ability to work on?