I refer you to the Naval thread You will see several forums on Pakistyani purchase of small diesel electric subs from china for $5 billion delivery between 2022-2030 .
A good mid-ranger, I would say.
Certainly not small like e.g. Type 210 Ula or Nacken class (both 1,150t) or Sjoormen (1,500 ton), or the German Type 201/205/206/207(Kobben) of around 500 tons.
S-20 submarine
- Surface displacement: 1850 tons
- Submerged displacement: 2300 tons
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Agosta 90B
- Surface displacement: 1,788+ tons
- Submerged displacement: 2,083 tons
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Gotland class
- Surface displacement: 1,494 tons
- Submerged displacement: 1,599 tons
Archer class
- Surface displacement: 1,500 tons
- Submerged displacement: 1,700 tons
Type 209
- /1100 Submerged displacement: 1,207 tons
- /1200 Submerged displacement: 1,285 tons
- /1300 Submerged displacement: 1,390 tons
- /1400 Submerged displacement: 1,586 tons
- /1500 Submerged displacement: 1,810 tons
Type 212A
- Surface displacement: 1,450 tons
- Submerged displacement: 1,830 tons
Type 214
- Surface displacement: 1,690 tons
- Submerged displacement: 1,860 tons
Dolphin class batch I
- Surface displacement: 1,640 tons
- Submerged displacement: 1,900 tons
Type 035
- Submerged displacement: 2,100 tons
Type 039
- Submerged displacement: 2,250 tons
Dolphin class batch III
- Surface displacement: 2,050 tons
- Submerged displacement: 2,400 tons
Walrus class
- Surface displacement: 2,350 tons
- Submerged displacement: 2,650 tons
Collins class
- Surface displacement: 3,100 tons
- Submerged displacement: 3,407 tons
Type 039A/041
- Submerged displacement: 3,600 tons
Kilo class
- Surface displacement: 2,350 tons
- Submerged displacement: 3,000 - 3,950 tons*
- * three variants
Soryu class
- Surface displacement: 2,900 tons
- Submerged displacement: 4,200 tons
So my point remains these are baby /junior subs that yuou people are buying they are non nuclear and not able to carry large nuclear missles
If your submarine can fire 6-8m long 533mm torpedoes, it can tube-launch similar sized (nuclear) cruisemissiles.
As for baby/junior subs, not really. As far as SSKs are concerned, the largest boats today are Collins, Kilo and Soryu. The new Australian boats will be the largest conventionally powered subs in the near future. Clearly one does not go and compare a truely coastal 500 ton Type 206 with an SSN or SSBN, which by definition are larger than the largest SSKs.
YOU MAY be able to place small missles or cruse missles BUT please don't compare to LA or Trident or Akula class subs these ships are 4 times the size and more
Conventional powered AIP-equipped Dolphin class Batch II has tubelaunched nuclear-tipped SLCM. North Korea uses conventionally powered Golf II with 3 silo's for SLBMs (if a MIRV is used, you may set up to min. 9 and max 36 nuclear warheads on target: that's not peanuts)
NK and Israel have both ICBMS and SLBMs Making their nuclear program better and more advanced than us.
Israel does not have SLBMs.