World's most mass produced submarines

[viper1972]

nice thread

 

[IND151]

Note> I know its not among most Mass Produced but it is queen of all Submarines

Typhoon Class SSBN

Planned: 8
Completed: 6
Cancelled: 2
Scrapped: 3

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rc...jYHYBg&usg=AFQjCNHcxsYerlzs_Z9G31HjMWP0q8IyOA

 

[asad71]

V good compilation. Not mass produced, but don't the foll nations also produce subs: Italy, S Africa and Brazil?

 

[500]

Della Class SSBNs

Thanks. There is quite a big difference between Delta-I and Delta-IV though: Delta-I - 12 ballistic missiles, displacement 13,700 t, 16 ballistic missiles, displacement 18,200 t. And according to Russian classification both Yankee and Delta are called Project 667:

Yankee - Project 667A/AU - 34
Delta I - Project 667B - 18
Delta II - Project 667BD - 4
Delta III - Project 667BDR - 14
Delta IV - Project 667BDRM - 7

Total number of Project 667 subs - 77. That makes Project 667 the most produced nuclear submarine, overpassing Los Angeles with 62.

 

[revojam]

Indeed excellent thread

 

[IND151]

Thanks. There is quite a big difference between Delta-I and Delta-IV though: Delta-I - 12 ballistic missiles, displacement 13,700 t, 16 ballistic missiles, displacement 18,200 t. And according to Russian classification both Yankee and Delta are called Project 667:

Yankee - Project 667A/AU - 34
Delta I - Project 667B - 18
Delta II - Project 667BD - 4
Delta III - Project 667BDR - 14
Delta IV - Project 667BDRM - 7

Total number of Project 667 subs - 77. That makes Project 667 the most produced nuclear submarine, overpassing Los Angeles with 62.

@ 1st bolded part> I know it

@2nd bolded part> thanks for info

 

[500]

Largest nuclear attack subs (SSN):

1. Project 885 Yasen (Russia) - 8,600/13,800 t

1st was commissioned in 2013. Up to 12 planned.

2. Project 971 Akula (USSR/Russia) - 8,470/13,800 t

Commissioned from 1984-2001. 15 built total.

3. Seawolf (USA) - 7,460/9,138 t

Commissioned from 1997-2005. 3 built. Special mission SSN-23 has displacement of 10,460/12,158 t and thus can be considered as largest attack sub.

4. Virginia (USA) - 7,080/7,800 t

In service since 2004. 10 active, 30 panned.

5. Astute (UK) - 6,500/7,800 t

In service since 2010. 2 completed, 7 planned.

6. Project 945A Sierra II (USSR/Russia) - 6,470/10,400 t

4 entered service from 1984-1993 (with slightly smaller Sierra I).

7. Los Angeles (USA) - 6,210/6,927 t

Commissioned from 1976-1996. 62 built.

8. Project 685 Mike (USSR) - 5,680/8,500 t

An experimental deep submersion sub. Commissioned in 1983.

9. Project 093 Shang (China) - 5,000/6,500 t

In service since 2007. 4 completed, up to 8 planned total.

 

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10. Project 671RTM Victor III (USSR/Russia) - 4,900/6,280 t

Commissioned from 1967-1992. 50 built, together with slightly smaller Victor I and Victor II.

11. Barracuda (France) - 4,765/5,300 t

2 being built. 6 planned.

12. Trafalgar (UK) 4,740/5,208 t

Commissioned from 1983-1991. 7 built.

13. Sturgeon (USA) - 4,460/4,960 t

Commissioned from 1966-1975. 37 built.

14. Project 091 Han (China) - 4,300/5,000 t

First Chinese nuclear sub. Commissioned from 1974-1991. 5 built.

These are all nuclear attack subs with surfaced displacement over 4,000 t.

Nice diagram by freddy:

 

[My-Analogous]

Next will be AC or Destroyers or Missiles or Hali copters ?

 

[500]

Next will be AC or Destroyers or Missiles or Hali copters ?

Hello. Here a short review of all SSBNs:

USA

George Washington (1959-1961). 5 built.

6,019/6,888 t. 16 Polaris A1/A3.

The first SSBN in the world. Based on Skipjack SSN. Noisy subs.

Ethan Allen/Lafayette (1961-1967). 36 built.

Subclasses:

Ethan Allen (1961-1963). 5 built. 7,067/8,010 t. 16 Polaris A2/A3.
Lafayette (1963-1964). 9 built. 7,250/8,250 t. 16 Polaris A2/A3 or Poseidon C3.
James Madyson (1964). 10 built. 7,370/8,380 t. 16 Polaris A3 or Poseidon C3 or Trident C4.
Benjamin Franklin (1965-1967). 12 built. 7,417/8,382 t. 16 Polaris A3 or Poseidon C3 or Trident C4.

Designed from scratch as SSBN, used Tresher SSN quiet machinery, had much higher depth.

Ohio (1981-1997). 18 built.

16,746/18,750 t. 24 Trident C4/D5.

Next generation SSBN. Much quieter, large spherical sonar.

USSR/Russia
Project 658 Hotel (1960-1962). 8 built.

4,080/5,300. 3 R-13 or R-21.

The first Soviet SSBN. Based on Project 627 November SSN. Only 3 missiles and very noisy. R-13 missiles could be launched only surfaced. From 1963 they were armed with R-21 missiles which could be fired submerged.

Project 667 Yankee/Delta (1967-1990). 78 built.

Subclasses:

667A Yankee (1967-1974). 34 built. 7,760/11,500 t. 16 R-27.
667B Delta I (1972-1977). 18 built. 12 R-29.
667BD Delta II (1975-1978). 5 built. 16 R-29D.
667BDR Delta III (1976-1981). 14 built. 16 R-29R.
667BDRM Delta IV (1984-1990). 7 built. 11,700/18,200 t. 16 R-29RM.

Designed from scratch as SSBN. Yankee were much nosier than American counterparts (Ethan Allen). Delta series started closing gap but still quite nosier. Delta I was the first ICMB range SSBN in the world.

Project 941 Typhoon (1981-1989). 6 built.

23,200/48,000 t. 20 R-39.

Largest submarine in the world. Quiet and powerful, but very expensive. Armed with solid fuel SLBMs (until then all Soviet SLBMs were liquid).

Project 955 Borei (2013-*). 2 built, 1 on trials, 8 planned.

14,720/24,000 t. 16 R-30.

Based on Project 971 Akula II SSN. New solid fuel SLBM.

 

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UK

Resolution (1967-1969). 4 built.

7,500/8,500 t. 16 Polaris A3.

Based on US Lafayette SSBN.

Vanguard (1993-1999). 4 built.

15,130/15 900 t. 16 Trident D5.

France

Redoutable (1971-1985). 6 built.

8,087/8,913 t. 16 M1/M2/M20/M4.

First French nuclear sub.

Triomphant (1997-2010). 4 built.

12,640/14,335 t. 16 M45 or M51.

Quieter than Ohio (uses pump jet), large sonar.

China

092 Xia (1987). 1-2 built.

~6,500/7,500 t. 12 JL-1.

First Chinese SSBN. Very noisy according to US sources.

094 Jin (2004-*). 4 built 6 planned.

~8,500/11,500 t. 12 or 16 JL-2.

Still quite noisy according to US sources.

India

Arihant. 1 on trials, 2 building ,6 planned.

~6,000/7,000 t. 12 K15 or 4 K4

First India's nuclear sub. Based on Soviet Project 670 Charlie SSGN.

 

[Informant]

Damn good work @500 resident Mossad agent

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

China's Type 094 will only get noisy when it sails over 30 knots, while sailing about 20 knots won't get noisy at all.

BTW, the pic of the Type 094 is in fact the Type 092.

 

[Penguin]

Type XXI

Between 1943 and 1945, 118 boats were assembled by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, AG Weser of Bremen, and F. Schichau of Danzig. Each hull was constructed from eight prefabricated sections with final assembly at the shipyards. This new method could have pushed construction time below six months per vessel, but in practice all the assembled U-boats were plagued with severe quality problems that required extensive post-production work to fix. One of the reasons was, as a result of Albert Speer's decision, sections were made by companies having little experience in shipbuilding. As a result, of 118 Type XXIs completed, only four were fit for combat before the war ended in Europe.

Type XXI submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Holy moly.. Germany built more then 1000 subs and still couldn't defend.. Apart from the main reason being invaded from land, in those days subs had limited range and no way the crew was trained enough when you have the production of this scale in such short period..

Actually, range and training had very little to do with it.

Advances in convoy tactics, high frequency direction finding (HFDF, huff-duff), radar, active sonar (called ASDIC in Britain), depth charges, ASW spigot mortars (hedgehog), the intermittent cracking of the German Naval Enigma code, the introduction of the Leigh Light, the range of escort aircraft (especially with the use of escort carriers), the use of mystery, and the full entry of the U.S. into the war with its enormous shipbuilding capacity, all turned the tide against the U-boats. In the end, the U-boat fleet suffered extremely heavy casualties, losing 793 U-boats and about 28,000 submariners (a 75% casualty rate, the highest of all German forces during the war).

At the same time, the Allies targeted the U-boat shipyards and their bases with strategic bombing.

U-boat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During the Second World Was , the German Navy built over a thousand U-boats or submarines for service in the Battle of the Atlantic and elsewhere. Although the majority of these had active service careers, and 784 of them were lost at sea, there were still several hundred boats which were never completed or completed too late to see any war service. These boats were sometime solely commissioned as training craft, or were too badly damaged by bombing to be worth completion. Most however were finished in the last six months of the war and never had time or enough fuel to complete their training programs. These boats remained in German harbours up until April/May 1945, when most were taken out to sea by skeleton crews and scuttled to prevent the allies capturing them. The boats that were captured were taken by the Allies to Loch Ryan in Scotland and Lisahally in Ireland. Some were presented to allied navies for commissioning or experiments, but the majority of captured U-boats were towed out to sea in the autumn of 1945 and sunk by gunfire in Operation Deadlight.

List of U-boats never deployed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Between January 1941 and August 1944, it [U-107] sailed on 16 active patrols at a time when a U-boat averaged a lifespan of seven to 10 patrols.

German submarine U-107 (1940) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the heydey period of 1942, a German U-boat had an average lifespan of thirteen months; by the end of the war that had dropped to three months

Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the ... - Gregory Orfalea - Google Boeken


Lots more info's here: The U-boat Wars 1939-1945 (Kriegsmarine) and 1914-1918 (Kaiserliche Marine) and Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net

Despite production, number of operational boats never topped 160 during WW2, about half of what admiral Donitz had estimated was needed to bring Britain to its knees.

Losses by year: Chart of U-boat losses - Fates - German U-boats of WWII - Kriegsmarine - uboat.net
Losses by cause: U-boat Losses by cause - Fates - German U-boats of WWII - Kriegsmarine - uboat.net

 

[500]

China's Type 094 will only get noisy when it sails over 30 knots, while sailing about 20 knots won't get noisy at all.

Thats what US navy report says

China's Noisy Nuclear Submarines - FAS Strategic Security Blog

At 20 knots are quiet only submarines like Seawolf, Yasen, Virginia.

BTW, the pic of the Type 094 is in fact the Type 092.

Tnx I corrected.