Navantia Starts Construction of Second S-80 Submarine for the Spanish Navy
(Source: Navantia; dated Dec. 13, web-posted Dec. 17, 2007)
Spanish Navy Admiral Sanjurjo Jul, Director of Naval Constructions, and Juan Pedro Gómez Jaén, CEO of Navantia, have presided on 13th. December, the ceremony of the cut of the first steel for the second S-80 submarine (S-82), and afterwards, the ceremony of the keel laying of the first unit (S-81).
The programme for the construction of four S-80 submarines was signed in 2005 and will be carried out at the Cartagena shipyard, meaning full activity until 2015.
The S-80 submarine, 100% Navantia design, is in these moments the most technologically advanced conventional submarine in the world. Navantia becomes, thanks to this programme, a pioneer company in submarines construction and system integration, as it happened before in the surface ships.
These submarines, equipped with an AIP system, will be delivered to the Spanish Navy in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Main particulars:
--Length overall: 71.05 m.
--Hull length: 51.76 m.
--Hull diameter: 7.30 m.
--Displacement Submerged: 2,426 t.
--Displacement Surface: 2,198 t
--Floatability: 9.5%
--Power (MEP): 3,500 Kw
--Number of Battery Elements: 360
--Generators Power: 3,600 Kw
--Crew: 32 p (+8)
--Speed: 20 knots
--Endurance: 50 days
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