Sinking Subs - 45 min documentary

1 May 1999
In a new major investigation, one of the Australian Navy's most respected former officers says the new Collins class submarines from Swedish manufacturer Kockums are potentially unsafe.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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News & Politics

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• Submarines
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[61Elmore]

you have to remeber this was taken when they where first releast back 11 years ago. NOw thay have improved their mistakes and is one of the best submairnes in the world and quitest. We bet the americans in the war games recently. So i take my hats off to the australians for buliding a swedish design and making it better in australia.

[smorgasbord3]

Sweden may be a little cold neutral country in the north, but we know how to make amazing submarines, jet fighters, canons, radar systems, tanks, recoilless guns, war ships, rifles, fire-and-forget surface-to-surface and air-to-surface, anti-ship missile etc...

[1dschamp]

I understand that the US Navy was involved in a complete overhaul of the propellar design on the Collins class leading to a significant improvement on the noise issue. That asid, i don;t think that Australia should forge ahead with a home built replacement for the Collins and instead go with the enhanced version of the Type 216 submarine being offered by ThyseenKrupp Marine. A proven design with capabilities beyond the Collins and the reliability of german manufacturing to boot.

[investornator]

You try and operate a piece of steel in a salty environment that has crushing forces exerted on you with mechanical parts and not have any problems?Morons ,The Collins Class sub is a weapon platform that dose preform.The information that has been learnt is invaluable to Australia.

[Fender869]

@61Elmore The Americans use augmentors on their LA class during war games. They are also very QUIET especially for a nuke. It's much more deadly and I would never say a Collins vs LA would be a faire fight. Not too mention the LA is close to 30 years old. Now the Collins could never stand up to a Seawolf or a new Virginia class SSN.

[agwhitaker]

@smorgasbord3 We know, we know. Sweden made a lots and lots of money selling Bofors and Oerlikon automatic gun systems to BOTH sides during WWII.

[Agent0range67]

I bet you got the wrong drawings

[dreamvisionnetwork]

@smorgasbord3:

WOW. WAR mashinery. How very very Amazing as you write it.

You dont think there is anything sinister and wrong with having such a view being proud of war equipment? SHould the russians say: "Look at our great Kalashnikov, It killed more than 20.000.000.. Its just Amazing". =D

Just amazing. Makes my bosson swell of pride of my Swedish land.

I hope you get shot by 1 of your own Swedish weapons and then you can lie there with an open gut.. whispering your last word: "amazing"!

[Jolinator]

@DeafFret its a combination of both, they cannot keep new recruites, combined with collins class being a choad.

[DeafFret]

@Jolinator I heard the reason there are only two currently operation is lack of personnel, not a design or construction fault.

[DeafFret]

@Scurck hey, Kockums Sweden built the bow section of the first ship in the fleet, HMAS Collins. The welding was faulty and it leaked. Having "designed and built 79 subs at the extreme forefront of submarine tech for over a 100 years", how can that be? I guess that sometimes they fuck up.