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The class has its roots in the late 1990s, and Spain ordered the submarines into production in 2003. Due to problems with the design, it had to be extensively redesigned in the 2010s, and a Spanish government budget crisis forced additional delays. On November 30, 2023, the first submarine of the class entered service with the Spanish Navy.
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 ...
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 ...
Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol (Catalan pronunciation: [nəɾˈsiz muntuɾiˈɔl i əstəriˈɔl]; 28 September 1819 – 6 September 1885) was a Spanish inventor, artist and engineer born in Figueres, Spain. He was the inventor of the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine.
The submarine was designed to dive to a depth of 300 m (980 ft) and could stay at sea for 30 days. Delfín ' s sail on the Paseo Dique de Levante in 2014. The submarine has twelve 550-millimetre (22 in) torpedo tubes; [10] eight tubes in the bow, two in the stern and one in each fin. While the forward tubes contain full-length torpedoes (either ...
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 ...
The Clase Tiburón submarines (in English Shark-class), was a mini submarines class of the Spanish Navy built in 1964. Only two units were built. Only two units were built. Currently, Tiburón-I (SA-51) is conserved as a museum ship in Barcelona and Tiburón-II (SA-52) in Cartagena .
Isaac Peral (A-0) was an American-made submarine in commission between 1917 and 1932; Isaac Peral (C-1) was in commission between 1928 and 1950; Isaac Peral (S-32), was a Balao-class submarine used during World War II; updated to Guppy IIA, and in commission between 1971 and 1987; Isaac Peral (S-81) is an S-80-class submarine currently under ...