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2005-11-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Germany May Sell 2 More Dolphin Subs to Israel

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-23 09:39|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bet India ends up buying secret squirrel block II

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-23 14:20|| 2005-11-23 14:20|| Front Page Top

#2 That's an extremely interesting link to the article describing cooperation with India. It's a Walter Pincus piece from 2002 discussing all sorts of Iraqi intentions and capabilities. Of course, he lies throughout since it is all based on misleading intelligence. I wonder if the WaPo is taking any remedial action on this point?

Posted by Gramp Joque6110 2005-11-23 14:48|| 2005-11-23 14:48|| Front Page Top

#3 "The rumours concerning Israel's nuclear-capable cruise missiles had stalled additional sales in 2003, as had Israeli reluctance over the price."

German export regulations bar the sale of heavy weaponry to "crisis areas". Yet it is the common assumption that Israel already is capable of mounting nuclear weapons on its submarines. And if not, its only a matter of time before they do. So are the descrepencies in production cost vs sale price due to shrewd negotiations or simply an indirect military assistance grant?

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-11-23 15:11|| 2005-11-23 15:11|| Front Page Top

#4 India has already purchased the popeye turbo

Posted by john 2005-11-23 18:27|| 2005-11-23 18:27|| Front Page Top

#5 "off Sri Lanka" suggests Chandipur-On-The-Sea where India has a missile test range and tracking radars.

Israel has already sold versions of the popeye turbo to India so the sub launched version may find a home with India's own German made subs.

HDW is back in India, bidding for the next submarine tender (France won the lsts tender and will be building Scorpenes in an Indian shipyard).
HDW is in competition with the Russian Amur. They claim to be able to retool the submarine shipyard they built in India in the 1980s in a matter of months.

One interesting offshoot of this is that it will make possible Indian subcontracting from the US for the building of submarines for Taiwan.

There are reports of Israeli collaboration on the Indian ATV (nuke sub project)

The Indian engineering firm Larson and Taubro is reportedly building the hull and has constructed this pontoon test launcher, already used to testfire a ballistic missile from underwater.

Link to Photo

Posted by john 2005-11-23 18:32|| 2005-11-23 18:32|| Front Page Top

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