Tanin (submarine, 2014)
.jpg) Tanin |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | Submarine |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | 2007 |
| Launch | May 2012 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | June 30, 2014 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
surfaced: 2000 ts |
| length |
68.0 m |
| width |
6.8 m |
| Draft |
6.2 m |
| crew |
35 men |
| drive |
3 × diesel engines , MTU 16V 396 SE 84, total: 3,120 kW (4,242 PS) |
| speed |
surfaced: 11 kn |
The Tanin is an Israeli submarine of the Dolphin II class , which in Germany at the German Howaldtswerke shipyard , Kiel , of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems was built. The ship is 68 m long.
The submarine was launched in May 2012. Testing took place from the end of 2013. The boat left Kiel in September 2014 and reached the Haifa naval base of the Israeli Navy on September 23, 2014 .
The boat is used for nuclear second strike capability.
The name of the boat means crocodile in Hebrew . It is the third submarine of this name; its predecessors were the HMS Springer, taken over by Israel in 1958, and the Gal-class Tanin, which was commissioned in 1977 .
