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HMAS Otama (SS 62/SSG 62) was an Oberon -class submarine, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in Scotland, the submarine was the last of the class to enter service when commissioned into the RAN in 1978. Otama was a specialist, one of two "Mystery Boats", fitted with additional surveillance and intelligence-gathering equipment.
The Fairbanks-Morse 38 8-1/8 is a diesel engine of the two-stroke, opposed-piston type. [ 1] It was developed in the 1930s, and is similar in arrangement to a contemporary series of German Bombers aircraft diesels. [ 2] The engine was used extensively in US diesel electric submarines of the 1940s and 1950s, as backup power on most US nuclear ...
The Cleveland Diesel Engine Division of General Motors (GM) was a leading research, design and production facility of diesel engines from the 1930s to the 1960s that was based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland Diesel Engine Division designed several 2 stroke diesel engines for submarines, tugboats, destroyer escorts, Patapsco -class gasoline ...
Gotland. -class submarine. The Gotland-class submarines of the Swedish Navy are modern diesel-electric submarines, which were designed and built by the Kockums shipyard in Sweden. They are the first submarines in the world to feature a Stirling engine air-independent propulsion (AIP) system, which extends their underwater endurance from a few ...
HMS Otus moored at a dock in 2002. The Oberon class was a ship class of 27 British-designed submarines operated by five nations. They were designed as a follow-on from the Porpoise class; physical dimensions were the same but stronger materials were used in hull construction and improved equipment was fitted.
The Type 209 (German: U-Boot-Klasse 209) is a range of diesel-electric attack submarines developed exclusively for export by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany.Five class variants (Types 209/1100, 209/1200, 209/1300, 209/1400 and 209/1500), including modifications thereof, have been successfully exported to 15 countries, with 68 submarines being built and commissioned to five different ...
A Russian Kilo-class submarine underway on the surface. The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau [ 1][ 2][ 3] in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy . The first version had the Soviet designation Project 877 Paltus ( Russian: Па́лтус ...
USS South Dakota (SSN-790), is a nuclear powered Virginia -class submarine in service with the United States Navy. The contract to build her was awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries in partnership with the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Newport News, Virginia on 22 December 2008. This boat is the seventh of the Block III ...