{"id":51412,"date":"2025-11-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=51412"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:50:06","slug":"israel-special-weapons-for-german-made-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/israel-spezielle-waffen-fuer-u-boote-deutscher-produktion\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel - special weapons for German-made submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israeli defence industry has developed ballistic missiles for the<\/strong> Dolphin submarines built in Germany. They are intended to make the submarines more defensive and increase their combat effectiveness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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INS Drakon under construction at TKMS in Kiel. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Dolphin boats were developed from the U-209 and U-212 classes and built by the Kiel-based company Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, now part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, in cooperation with the former Nordseewerke in Emden. The Israeli Navy commissioned three Dolphin I-class submarines with diesel-electric propulsion from 1999 and two further developed Dolphin II-class boats with air-independent propulsion (AIP) from 2014. The third boat was not christened until November 2024 (INS DRAKON) and is currently being delivered. A third construction lot with three further units as the Dakar class has already been contractually agreed with TKMS.<\/p>\n

The AIP propulsion system enables the 68 metre long submarines to remain under water for weeks at a time, independent of the outside air. They are equipped with diver escape chambers and have a maximum crew of 50 people.<\/p>\n

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INS Drakon on a test run. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The class has a total of ten torpedo tubes in two different sizes (6 x 533 mm and 4 x 650 mm), from which different torpedoes and missiles can be fired. This also includes the Popeye turbo cruise missile developed in Israel, which can be equipped with a nuclear warhead and is estimated to have a range of 1,500 kilometres, although this has not been officially confirmed. According to media reports, the DRAKON has been extended by more than 4 metres and equipped with vertical launch silos (Vertical Launching System\/VLS) in order to be able to launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles or ballistic missiles vertically from the tower. However, there is not yet any photographic evidence of the VLS.<\/p>\n

kdk, Defence-Network<\/p>\n

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Die israelische Verteidigungsindustrie hat ballistische Flugk\u00f6rper f\u00fcr die in Deutschland gebauten U-Boote des Typs Dolphin entwickelt. \u00a0Sie sollen die U-Boote abwehrf\u00e4higer machen und ihre Kampfkraft steigern. Die Dolphin-Boote wurden aus den Klassen U-209 und U-212 entwickelt und von der Kieler Firma Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, heute Teil von ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, in Zusammenarbeit mit den ehemaligen Nordseewerken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51412"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51441,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51412\/revisions\/51441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}