Todjaeger
Potstirrer
Wow. A number of terms I am not familiar with.You have to hand it to the germans, they know what to say and do. Buying ASC is a pretty big carrot. Export to Canada and other countries. They will be winning local voters over with plans to expand techport and white elephanting the Japanese proposal.
* Ian McPhedran travelled to Germany as a guest of TKMS.
Also love the submarine comparison table. Soryu doesnt have aip? I suspect many things are suspect or odd on that table. Too bad it doesn't include engines, underwater endurance etc.
For example, what is:
Propultion Motor?
Tope speed?
The one I do not think is a spelling mistake is the term US C2 and Armament Potential, which for the Collins-class SSG was marked as n/a, which I suspect is not the real case.
One of my other takeways from the chart is that it projects the impression that the Type 216 submarine is a 'real' sub, vs. a hypothetical design. The Li-Ion battery mention for instance, has a conventional Barracuda-class listed with "(under development)" while the Type 216 gets a "Yes" given that the Type 216 design is technically Under Development, the Li-Ion status seems a bit premature.