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The Hai Kun-class submarine (Chinese: 海鯤級潛艦, translation "Narwhal" [6]), alternatively known as the Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS) program, is a class of attack submarines built by CSBC Corporation, Taiwan for the Republic of China Navy. [7]
The Republic of China Navy (ROCN; colloquially the Taiwanese Navy) is the maritime branch of Taiwan's military, the Republic of China Armed Forces (ROCAF). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The service was formerly commonly just called the Chinese Navy during World War II and prior to the ROC's retreat to Taiwan . [ 7 ]
The transfer of the ships includes the AN/SQR-19 Multi-Function Towed Array. Taiwan had previously been blocked from acquiring the AN/SQR-19, and the transfer of the system points to an anti-submarine focus in line with the Knox-class frigates they will likely replace. A new class of eight (8) conventional attack submarines is planned.
The island's navy currently has only four submarines, including two World War II-era vessels from the US that are used for training. Taiwan procured two submarines from the Netherlands in the 1980s.
Taiwan's navy simulated on Thursday an effort to see off enemy ships as it wrapped up three days of New Year drills, sending two of its newest and most advanced warships to lead a flotilla into ...
The Republic of China (Taiwan) ordered two submarines, each based on the Dutch Zwaardvis design, in September 1981. [4] The keels for both submarines were laid down by dock and yard company Wilton Fijenoord b.v Schiedam in December 1982, though initial construction of the submarines was delayed due to the builder's financial instability, work resumed in 1983.
Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat from China, which has been ratcheting up its naval and air force missions around the island that it claims as ...
USS Cutlass (SS-478), is a Tench-class submarine now in the service of the Republic of China Navy. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cutlassfish, a long, thin fish found widely along the coasts of the United States and in the West Indies. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 10 July 1944.