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The Spanish government approved the purchase of four S-80A submarines in September 2003 and signed a contract with Izar on 24 March 2004. [13] The original deal was €1,756M to design and build four submarines, [13] about €439M per boat. However, this had increased to €2,212M [14] by 2010 (€553M per boat).
Spanish police announced Friday that they seized a homemade narco-submarine able to carry up to 2 metric tons (2.2 tons) of cargo. Police came across the 9-meter-long (30-feet-long) craft last ...
Submarine C-3 with rescue submarine ship Kanguro. Isaac Peral (C-1) 1928 – 1950. C-2 1928 – 1951. C-3 1928 – 1936, sunk by German submarine U-34. C-4 1928 – 1946, accidentally rammed by Spanish destroyer Lepanto. C-5 1928 – 1937, missing. C-6 1928 – 1937, scuttled.
The Agosta-class submarines in Spanish service had a projected service life of 30 years. However, due to delays in the successor S-80-class program , they have undergone numerous repairs. Galerna was scheduled for another large overhaul in the summer of 2017, the fifth over her career, to extend her service life until the delivery of the next ...
Between 19 and 23 March 2012, the submarine participated in the INSTREX-12 exercise, along with 11 other ships and the Portuguese Tridente-class submarine, Arpao. [ 3 ] On 24 May 2013, Pedro Argüelles, Secretary of State for Defence , declared at the Congress of Deputies that shipbuilding company Navantia would review the technical delays of ...
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Peral was the first successful submarine to be entirely powered by electric batteries and the first fully military-capable submarine in history. [clarification needed] [1] It was built by the Spanish engineer and sailor Isaac Peral for the Spanish Navy at the Arsenal de la Carraca (now Navantia), [2] [3] the submarine was launched on 8 September 1888.
The Spanish government, during General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship showed interest for such a submarine for the Spanish Navy. Several German naval officers (including Wilhelm Canaris) visited Spain and struck a deal with a Spanish businessman, Horacio Echevarrieta. A single submarine was built in 1929–1930, it was launched on October 22 ...