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The ''Dolphin'' class is actually two related sub-classes of diesel-electric submarine developed and constructed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW), Germany for the Israeli Navy. The first three members of the class were based on the export-only German 209-class submarines, but greatly modified and enlarged, and are thus not designated as members of the 209 family. The ''Dolphin'' 1 sub-class is slightly larger than the German Navy Type 212 in length and displacement. The three newer air-independent propulsion (AIP) equipped boats are similar to the Type 212 vessels currently used by the German navy in underwater endurance, although the AIP ''Dolphins'' are longer and are nearly 500 tonnes heavier in submerged displacement, and have a larger crew than either the Type 212 or the Type 214. The ''Dolphin 2''-class are the largest submarines to have been built in Germany since World War II.〔 The ''Dolphin'' class boats are the most expensive single vehicles in the Israel Defense Forces and are considered among the most sophisticated and capable conventionally powered submarines in the world. The ''Dolphin''-class replaced the aging s, which had served in the Israeli navy since the late 1970s. Each ''Dolphin''-class submarine is capable of carrying a combined total of up to 16 torpedoes and SLCMs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SSK Dolphin Class, Israel )〕 The cruise missiles have a range of at least and are widely believed〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International and Professional Press about the new Dolphin Submarines )〕 to be equipped with a nuclear warhead containing up to of plutonium. The latter, if true, would provide Israel with an offshore nuclear second strike capability.〔 ==Boats== ''Dolphin'' class * ''Dolphin'' – delivered May 1998 – commissioned 1999 * ''Leviathan'' (trans. "Leviathan" or "whale") – delivered 1999 – commissioned 2000 * ''Tekumah'' (trans. "Revival") – delivered 2000 – commissioned 2000 AIP ''Dolphin 2'' class〔 * ''Tanin'' (trans. "Tannin" or "Crocodile") – delivered 23 Sept 2014 – expected to enter service in 2014 * ''Rahav'' (trans. "Rahab" or "Splendour") – delivered 29 April 2013 – expected to enter service in 2014〔〔 * Name not assigned yet. Ordered 21 March 2012.〔 Expected to enter service in 2017. First budgeted in July 1989 and ordered in January 1990, by November the order was cancelled due to budget reallocation aimed at countering Iraqi threats leading up to the 1991 Gulf War. The first two (''Dolphin'' and ''Leviathan'') were fully donated by Germany to restart the program and the third (''Tekumah'') received a 50% subsidy. During the first Gulf War, it was revealed that German firms had assisted Iraq with modernizing its ballistic missile and chemical weapon programs, thanks in part to lax enforcement by German customs; these enhanced missiles bringing Israeli cities into Iraqi targeting range for the first time and included supplies and factories for modern weaponized mustard and nerve gas.〔http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/06/uk.iraq〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iraq's Missiles" a Brief History )〕 Though not a belligerent in the Gulf War Israeli cities were nevertheless bombarded with these enhanced Iraqi missiles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Gulf War (1991) )〕 To compensate Israel for war related damage and economic losses〔 and keep German shipyards occupied with a high profile project in the post Cold War defense spending downturn〔 〕 then Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl approved an assistance package including the construction of two ''Dolphin''-class submarines. The names ''Dolphin'' and ''Leviathan'' hail from the retired Israeli WWII-era submarines of the British T class; the third boat ''Tekuma'' (translation: Revival) refers in memory of ''Dakar'', the third Israeli boat of the T class which was lost in 1968 with all Israeli crew in the Mediterranean Sea during delivery. The forthcoming boats ''Tanin'' and ''Rahav'' are names taken from retired ''Gal''-class submarines, which were themselves named after even older Israeli S class boats. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dolphin-class submarine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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