Daewoo Battery Submarine

Submarine Daewoo - sounds terrifying. If you trace the history of the South Korean brand, the company, starting with electronics at the end of the 20 century, has shown itself well in the automotive industry. In the 2018 year - a submarine, and after 5-10 years, the Koreans will fly to Mars with missiles with the Daewoo logo.

Submarine Daewoo: details

The submarine with a displacement of 3 thousand tons, with a length of 83 m and a width of 10 meters, is equipped with an electric and diesel engine. The manufacturer made an emphasis on noiselessness. Representatives of the U.S. Navy, after the test, confirmed that the Daewoo submarine, for its size, is silent.

The Koreans will transfer the submarine in 2020 to their own Navy, and in 2022 they plan to put the submarine into service

The mechanism of the diesel-electric engine is simple. The boat floats on batteries that are charged by diesel generators. The range of the submarine 18 thousand kilometers. A Daewoo submarine with a crew of 50 people will last 20 days under water. Uneven nuclear submarines that do not float from the bottom of the ocean on 80-100 days, but still a good result for the first submarine.

And so, for reference: Daewoo Shipbuilding in South Korea is one of the three leaders in shipbuilding with the giants Hyundai and Samsung. If you look at the planet, the Koreans are firmly settled in the 4-th place, losing to the Americans, Chinese and Russians.