Discreetly, Taiwan has started construction of the first locally made submarine

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Discreetly, Taiwan has started construction of the first locally made submarine

Nothing is simple for Taiwan when it comes to finding international partners in defense programs. But the replacement of its 4 attack submarines, two dating from the end of the Second World War, and two from the mid-1980s, is all the more difficult, as the only country which officially dares to defy the embargo de facto imposed by Beijing on weapons destined for Taiwan, the United States has not built a conventionally powered submarine for more than 50 years. And building a ship as complex as a 2000-ton submarine without external support is a project of colossal difficulty...

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Discreetly, Taiwan has begun construction of the first locally made submarine 4

However, this is what the Taiwanese authorities decided to do, with the start, on November 3, of the construction of the first locally-made attack submarine of the Indigenous Defense Submarine program, with a budget of 50 Billion Taiwanese dollars, or €1.5 billion. Officially, the construction of the submersible, which brings together 6 large local companies, must be completed in 2024, and sea trials must take place in 2025. The characteristics of the submersible, other than its tonnage which is announced "between 1500 and 2000 tonnes" , are for the moment marked with the seal of secrecy.

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Taiwan will modernize its two Hai Lung class submarines acquired from the Netherlands in the mid-1980s.

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Fabrice Wolf
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A former French naval aeronautics pilot, Fabrice is the editor and main author of the Meta-defense.fr site. His areas of expertise are military aeronautics, defense economics, air and submarine warfare, and Akita inu.

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