{"id":52856,"date":"2026-02-13T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=52856"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:10:44","slug":"taigei-u-boat-sougei-launch-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/taigei-u-boot-sougei-stapellauf-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching of the sixth Taigei submarine in Kobe\/Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While ten of the twelve Soryu boats (84 metres, 4,200 tonnes submerged) are still equipped with Saab Kockums' air-independent propulsion system and only the last two of the series from 2020 have been fitted with lithium-ion batteries for propulsion, the Taigei boats (85 metres, 4,300 tonnes) developed from this class are exclusively battery-powered.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sougei\", the sixth and penultimate boat in this class, was launched in mid-October at Kawasaki (KHI) in Kobe. Launched in March 2023, \"Sougei\" is scheduled to enter service by mid-2027 at the latest. For KHI, it was already the 32nd submarine to bear this company stamp.<\/p>\n<p>With the seven boats of the Oyashio class, which date back to the 2000s and have already been modernised, Japan currently operates over twenty 3,000-tonne submarines.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W\u00e4hrend zehn der zw\u00f6lf Soryu-Boote (84 Meter, 4.200 Tonnen getaucht) noch mit dem au\u00dfenluftunabh\u00e4ngigen Antrieb von Saab Kockums ausgestattet sind und nur die zwei letzten der Bauserie ab 2020 f\u00fcr den Antrieb mit Lithium-Ionen-Batterien best\u00fcckt wurden, sind die aus dieser Klasse entwickelten Taigei-Boote (85 Meter, 4.300 Tonnen) ausschlie\u00dflich batteriegetrieben. \u201eSougei\u201c, das sechste und vorletzte Boot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52860,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[11799,1375,11794,11795,11793,11797,11798,11792,11790,3600,11791,11796,5601],"class_list":["post-52856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-batteriegetriebenes-u-boot","tag-japanische-marine","tag-kawasaki","tag-khi","tag-lithium-ionen-batterien","tag-marine-japan","tag-oyashio-klasse","tag-soryu-klasse","tag-sougei","tag-stapellauf","tag-taigei-klasse","tag-u-boot-japan","tag-unterseeboot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856","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=52856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52861,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856\/revisions\/52861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}