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Canada Taps Safran for Victoria-class Submarine Modernization 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
The periscope upgrade is a part of Canada’s Victoria-class diesel electric submarine modernization.
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Disregard; that's a whole new scope on that mast and the attack scope is on a new fairing!
AHA! @ 1:16 the video shows two masts up, search scope and comms, and then another scope is raised. I knew there had to be two; gotta update! Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJKR...
They modded the scope!
Updated illustration of the Taiwanese submarine Hai Kun (SS-711). Sail and masts I've seen so far.
Nice!
Just the two masts lol
Cheers! Ill look into it! Also, some of my work is also over on modern-submarines.com by Eric Genevelle
Ah, green is comms, purple ESM
*this is just four of them lol
No top-down views at the moment, but I do have three-quarter view for all French and Soviet sails
What I've been working on this afternoon; US boats, top-down view of the sail. 688 flt II, 688i, Ohio SSBN, Ohio SSGN, Seawolf, Virginia blk 1-3, Virginia blk4
Hell yeah!
hmmm lol
After looking at the pictures, it appears that the most forward tube on each side is staggered, not side by side. This would also help understand the door to door spacing on each side not being closer. Here is what my crude top down estimate is for the configuration.
Excellent observation! I think that makes a lot of sense
New photos means updated sketches... and an attempt to figure out those masts @saturnax1.bsky.social Presumed port side shows hatches/hinges; so 10 tubes in total?
Well, time to get crackin' on some new stuff. Napkin sketch of N.Korean SSB(N?) shown 24/25 Dec. @saturnax1.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social
@38north.org article from March noting a new-type submarine www.38north.org/2025/03/nort...
Another photo from Sino Defence Forum
I would say it looks most like a Type 039 that's been stretched and a missile compartment shoved in
Already some debate on whether these are AI generated or not...
New N.Korean SSB(N?) just dropped @saturnax1.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/submarines...
BAE Systems has been awarded a $36 million production contract from Lockheed Martin to deliver Multifunction Modular Mast (MMM) systems for integration onto U.S. Navy submarines 🇺🇸
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Hmmm curious indeed
That is a … curious amount of masts…