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List of submarine classes

This is a list of submarine classes, sorted by country. The navies of 46 states operate submarines.

Contents

Algeria

  • Raïs Hadj Mubarek class (Type 877EKM Kilo)
  • Raïs Hadj Slimane class (Type 877EKM Kilo)
  • 2 Project 636 (in order)
  • Argentina

    Armada de la República Argentina:

  • Santa Fe class (1930s built in Italy — decommissioned)
  • Santa Fe class (1960s US-built Balao - decommissioned)
  • Santa Fe class (1970s US-built Guppy - decommissioned)
  • Santa Cruz-class (German-built TR-1700)
  • Salta-class (German-built Type 209/1200)
  • Australia

    Royal Australian Navy:

  • Oberon class (decommissioned)
  • Collins class (Type 471)
  • Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Navy:

  • Ming class (Type 035/based on Romeo)
  • Brazil

    Marinha do Brasil:

  • Humaita (1927) - (decommissioned)
  • Tupi class (1937) - (decommissioned)
  • Goiaz class (GUPPY III) (decommissioned)
  • Bahia class (GUPPY II) (decommissioned)
  • Humaita class (Oberon) (decommissioned)
  • Tupi class (Type 209/1400)
  • Tikuna (modified Tupi class) (modified Type 209/1400)
  • Scorpéne in order (with technology transference)
  • SSN being developed with French help
  • Bulgaria

  • Slava class (Romeo acquired from the USSR)
  • Canada

    Royal Canadian Navy:

  • Victoria-class submarine - 4 ex-RN Upholder-class in active service
  • Oberon-class submarine (decommissioned after 2000); 3 acquired and 2 for training and spares; 2 sold as museum ship (HMCS Ojibwa (S72) and HMCS Onondaga (S73)) and 3 scrapped (HMS Olympus (S12), HMS Osiris (S13), HMCS Okanagan (S74))
  • Tench-class submarine (decommissioned); built for United States Navy; USS Argonaut (SS-475) renamed HMCS Rainbow 1968 and retired 1974
  • Balao-class submarine (decommissioned); built for United States Navy; USS Burrfish (SS-312) acquired 1961 and renamed as HMCS Grisle and served until 1969; return to USN and later scrapped.
  • British H-class submarine (decommissioned); built in United States; acquired 1919 HMCS CH-14 and HMCS CH-15 and disposed 1927 and 1922 respectively
  • CC-class submarine (decommissioned); built in United States for Chilean Navy and sold to British Columbia 1913; CC-1 and CC-2 Commissioned Royal Canadian Navy 1914; scrapped in 1920
  • Captured and recommissioned German U-boats:

  • Captured and recommissioned German U-boats - German Type IX submarines German submarine U-190 and German submarine U-889
  • Chile

  • Capitan O'Brien class - built in Britain in late 1920s
  • O'Brien class (Oberon) (decommissioned)
  • Thomson class (Type 209/1400) (upgraded)
  • O'Higgins class (Scorpène)
  • People's Republic of China

    People's Liberation Army Navy:

  • Type 03 class (Whiskey) (decommissioned)
  • Type 031 class (Golf) (SSB)
  • Type 033 class (Romeo)
  • Wuhan class (Type 033G, license built Romeo)
  • Ming class (Type 035/based on Romeo)
  • Kilo class
  • Song class (Type 039)
  • Yuan class (Type 041)
  • Han class (Type 091) (SSN)
  • Xia class (Type 092) (SSBN)
  • Shang class (Type 093) (SSN)
  • Jin class (Type 094) (SSBN)
  • Colombia

  • Pijao class (Type 209/1200)
  • Intrepide class (Italian midget submarine Type SX 506)
  • Croatia

  • modified Una-class midget submarine
  • Denmark

    Royal Danish Navy:

  • D class (1926—1946)
  • H class (1938—1950)
  • U class (1947—1959)
  • V class (1947—1958)
  • Delfinen class (1961—1990)
  • Narhvalen class (Type 205) (1970—2004)
  • Tumleren class (Kobben/Type 207) (1989—2004)
  • Kronborg class (Näcken) (2001—2004)
  • See also: Danish Submarines 1909-2004 @ Danish Naval History

    Ecuador

  • Shyri class (Type 209/1300)
  • Estonia

    Kalev class mine laying submarines

    Estonian Navy:

  • EML Kalev
  • EML Lembit
  • Egypt

  • Romeo class (Chinese built, Type033G?)
  • Type 209 submarine 2 ordered
  • Finland

    Finnish Navy:

  • Vesikko (World War II)
  • Saukko (World War II)
  • Vetehinen (World War II)
  • France

    French Navy: Conventional

    Early Submarines:

  • Plongeur
  • Gymnote (Q1)
  • Gustave Zédé (Q2)
  • Morse (Q3)
  • Narval (Q4)
  • Sirène class
  • Farfadet class
  • Morse class
  • Naïade class
  • First World War:

  • Aigrette class
  • Émeraude class
  • Circé class
  • Guèpe class
  • Pluviôse class
  • Archimède class
  • Charles Brun (Q89)
  • Mariotte
  • Brumaire class
  • Amiral Bourgois (Q82)
  • Clorinde class
  • Gustave Zédé class
  • Amphitrite class
  • Bellone class
  • Dupuy de Lôme class
  • Diane class
  • Armide class
  • Joessel class
  • Inter-war:

  • O'Byrne class
  • Maurice Callot class
  • Pierre Chailley class
  • Second World War:

  • 600 and 630 tonnes classes
  • Sirène class
  • Ariane class
  • Circé class
  • Argonaute class
  • Orion class
  • Diane class
  • Requin class
  • Saphir class
  • Redoutable class (oceanic submarines)
  • Surcouf class (submarine cruiser)
  • Minerve class
  • Aurore class (coastal submarines)
  • Morillot class
  • Émeraude class
  • Phénix class
  • British U class submarine (transferred to the FNFL)
  • Cold War:

  • Aréthuse class (decommissioned)
  • Narval class (decommissioned)
  • Daphné class (decommissioned)
  • Gymnote (S655) (decommissioned)
  • Agosta class (decommissioned in French service)
  • Nuclear:

  • Redoutable-class (SSBN) (decommissioned)
  • Rubis class (SSN)
  • Inflexible class (SSBN) (upgraded Redoutable) (decommissioned)
  • Triomphant-class (SSBN)
  • Barracuda class (SSN) (planned for 2017)
  • Export models:

  • Scorpène class
  • SMX-23 class submarine
  • Andrasta class submarine
  • Germany

    Kriegsmarine:

  • Type I U-boat
  • Type II U-boat
  • Type VII U-boat
  • Type IX U-boat
  • Type X U-boat
  • Type XIV U-boat
  • Type XVII U-boat
  • Type XVIII U-boat
  • Type XXI U-boat
  • Type XXIII U-boat
  • Modern German Navy:

  • Type 240 class (Type XXXIII) (decommissioned)
  • Type 241 class (Type XXI) (decommissioned)
  • Type 201 class (decommissioned)
  • Type 202 class (decommissioned)
  • Type 205 class (decommissioned)
  • Type 206A class (decommissioned)
  • Type 212A class
  • Export Models:

  • Gal class (design only)
  • Type 207 class (Kobben)
  • Type 209 class
  • TR-1700 class
  • Type 210 class (Ula)
  • Dolphin class
  • Type 214 class
  • Greece

    Royal Hellenic Navy

  • Katsonis-class submarine
  • Protefs-class submarine
  • Greek Navy:

  • Glavkos class (Type 209/1100)
  • Poseidon class (Type 209/1200)
  • Katsonis class (Type 214) (building)
  • India

    Indian Navy:

  • Foxtrot Class
  • Shishumar (Type 209) Class
  • Sindhughosh (Kilo) Class
  • Scorpène Class
  • Akula Class. Indian navy is paying $2 billion for the completion of two submarines. The agreement was signed in late 2005 in Moscow. India will receive these submarines from late 2006 to late 2007. India will lease them until a projected 5 to 6 ATV indigenous submarines are manufactured. The Indians have a lease/ purchase deal.
  • Arihant Class is a Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine being constructed by India as a part of the Indian Navy's Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) Project and is expected to be commissioned by 2015.trails completed on 23 Feb 2016.
  • Indonesia

    Indonesian Navy:

  • Whiskey decommissioned
  • Cakra class (Type 209/1300)
  • Chang Bogo class (Type 209/1400) (planned)
  • Iran

    Iranian Navy:

  • Tareq class (Kilo)
  • SSI
  • Ghadir class
  • Fateh class
  • Nahang class
  • Ghaaem class
  • Yugo class
  • Israel

    Israeli Navy:

  • Gal class
  • Dolphin class
  • Italy

    See list of submarines of Italy

    Regia Marina:

  • Balilla class
  • Medusa class
  • Laurenti class
  • Cavallini class
  • Archimede class
  • 600 Serie Adua class submarine
  • Marcello class
  • Marconi class
  • Fieramosca class
  • Glauco class
  • Brin class
  • Foca class
  • Marina Militare:

  • Toti class (decommissioned)
  • Nazario Sauro class
  • Salvatore Pelosi class (improved Sauro)
  • Primo Longobardo class (improved Pelosi)
  • Salvatore Todaro class (Type 212A)
  • Imperial Japanese Navy

  • Ko-hyoteki class submarine (midget)
  • KD1 class
  • KD2 class
  • KD3 class
  • KD4 class
  • KD5 class
  • KD6 class
  • KD7 class
  • J1 class
  • J2 class
  • J3 class
  • C1 class
  • C2 class
  • C3 class
  • A1 class
  • A2 class
  • A Modified class
  • B1 class (I-15 series)
  • B2 class
  • B3 class
  • Sen Toku class (aka I-400)
  • Kaichu class
  • Kaisho class
  • Sen Taka' class (aka I-200)
  • KRS class
  • D1 class
  • D2 class
  • Sen Ho class
  • Sen Ho Sho class
  • LA class
  • Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

  • United States Gato-class:Kuroshio was commissioned on August 15, 1955 and stricken on March 31, 1966. The first Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force submarine.
  • Oyashio (SS-511): A single unit, launched on May 25, 1959 and stricken on September 30, 1976. The first indigenous submarine of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force.
  • Hayashio class
  • Natsushio class
  • Oshio class
  • Uzushio class
  • Yushio class
  • Harushio class
  • Asashio class (modified Harushio to test Stirling AIP System)
  • Oyashio class
  • Sōryū class
  • Republic of Korea

    Republic of Korea Navy:

  • Chang Bogo class (Type 209)
  • Son Won-il class (Type 214)
  • North Korea

    Korean People's Army:

  • Whiskey class (decommissioned?)
  • Romeo class
  • Sang-O class
  • Yugo class (midget submarine)
  • Sinpo class
  • Libya

  • Foxtrot (non operational)
  • Malaysia

    Royal Malaysian Navy:

  • Perdana Menteri class (Scorpène)
  • Agosta 70 class (decommissioned)
  • Netherlands

    See the list of submarines of the Netherlands Royal Dutch Navy:

  • K XI class (decommissioned)
  • Walrus (old) class (GUPPY IB) (decommissioned)
  • Zwaardvis (old) class (T-class) (decommissioned)
  • Dolfijn class (decommissioned)
  • Potvis class (enhanced Dolfijn) (decommissioned)
  • Zwaardvis class (decommissioned)
  • Walrus class
  • See also: Dutchsubmarines.com

    Norway

    Royal Norwegian Navy:

  • Kobben (1909–1933) One vessel purchased from Germany.
  • A class (1913–1940) Three vessels bought from Germany.
  • B class (1922–1946) Six vessels of the U.S. Holland type built under licence in Norway.
  • U class (1941–1943) One vessels given to Norway in 1941.
  • V class (1949-196X) Two vessels given to Norway in 1943, after the war Norway purchased three more.
  • K class (1949-196X) Three vessels left in Norway by the Germans.
  • Kobben / Type 207 (1964–2003) Fifteen vessels purchased from Germany.
  • Ula / Type 210 (1989-In use) Six vessels purchased from Germany.
  • Peru

  • Abato class (decommissioned)
  • Casma class (Type 209/1200)
  • Poland

    Polish Navy:

  • Orzeł class (decommissioned)
  • Wilk class (decommissioned)
  • Whiskey class (decommissioned)
  • Foxtrot class (decommissioned)
  • Kilo class
  • Kobben / Type 207 class
  • Portugal

    Portuguese Navy:

  • Albacora class (Daphné)
  • Type 209mod (planned for 2010, [1])
  • Romania

  • Delfinul class (Kilo)
  • Dalfinul class (World War II)
  • Rechinul class
  • Marsuinul class
  • CB class
  • Russia (and Soviet Union)

    Soviet Navy and Russian Navy:

  • See the list of Soviet and Russian submarine classes
  • Singapore

    Republic of Singapore Navy:

  • Challenger class (refurbished Swedish Sjöormen class)
  • Archer class (originally Swedish Västergötland class, upgraded to Södermanland class standards) (commission planned for 2010)[2]
  • South Africa

    South African Navy:

  • Maria van Riebeeck/Spear class (Daphné)
  • Heroine class Type 209/1400-mod
  • Spain

    Spanish Navy: [3]

  • Peral class
  • Isaac Peral class (Laurenti)
  • A class (Holland)
  • B class (Holland F-105)
  • C class (Holland F-105F)
  • D class
  • General Mola class (Archimede)
  • G class (Type VII C)
  • Foca class (Spanish version of the Seehund)
  • Tiburón class
  • Almirante García de los Reyes class (Balao)
  • Serie 30 class (Guppy IIA)
  • Delfín class (Daphné)
  • Galerna class (Agosta)
  • S-80 class (in construction)
  • Export models:

  • Gür (E) class
  • Scorpene class
  • Sweden

    Swedish Navy:

  • Hajen class
  • Draken class
  • Sjöormen class
  • Näcken class (Type A-14)
  • Västergötland class (Type A-17)
  • Södermanland class (upgraded Västergötland)
  • Gotland class (Type A-19)
  • Taiwan

    Republic of China Navy

  • Hai Lung class (Zwaardvis-class submarine) class
  • Hai Shih class (Tench class) class
  • Thailand

    Royal Thai Navy

  • Matchanu class - 1938-1951
  • Turkey

    Turkish Navy:

  • Atilay class (Type 209/1200)
  • Preveze class (Type 209T1/1400)
  • Gur class (Type 209T2/1400)
  • Type 214TN (advanced Type 214)
  • United Kingdom

    Royal Navy:

  • Holland class
  • A class
  • B class
  • C class
  • D class
  • E class
  • F class
  • G class
  • H class
  • J class
  • L class
  • K class
  • M class
  • Nautilus class
  • R class
  • HMS X1
  • Odin class
  • Parthian class
  • Rainbow class
  • S class
  • River class
  • Grampus class
  • T class
  • U class
  • P611 class
  • V class
  • Amphion class
  • HMS Meteorite
  • Explorer class
  • Stickleback class (midget submarines)
  • Porpoise class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
  • Oberon class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
  • HMS Dreadnought (S101)
  • Valiant class attack submarines
  • Resolution class ballistic missile submarines
  • Churchill class attack submarines
  • Swiftsure class attack submarines
  • Trafalgar class attack submarines
  • Upholder class attack submarines
  • Vanguard class SSBN submarines
  • Astute class attack submarines
  • United States

    See the list of United States submarine classes

    Ukraine

    Ukrainian Navy:

  • Kherson class (Foxtrot)
  • Venezuela

  • Sabalo-class (Type 209/1300)
  • Vietnam

  • Kilo class
  • Yugo class
  • Yugoslavia

  • Hrabri-class submarine
  • Osvetnik-class submarine
  • Sutjeska-class submarine
  • Sava class submarine
  • Heroj-class submarine
  • Una-class midget submarine
  • References

    List of submarine classes Wikipedia


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