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SALVATORE TODARO submarines (2006-)

Salvatore Todaro 2010

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Salvatore Todaro S526   Fincantieri, Muggiano 3.7.1999 6.11.2003 29.3.2006 in service (2019)
Scirè S527   Fincantieri, Muggiano 27.7.2000 18.12.2004 18.2.2008 in service (2019)
Pietro Venuti S528   Fincantieri, Muggiano 7.8.2009 9.10.2014 6.7.2016 in service (2019)
Romeo Romei S529   Fincantieri, Muggiano 1.7.2010 6.7.2015 11.5.2017 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

1360

Displacement normal, t

1460 / 1830

Length, m

55.9 pp 57.2 oa

Breadth, m

6.90

Draught, m

5.75

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 MTU 16V396 diesel-generator / AIP with 9 Siemens PEM fuel cells, 1 Siemens Permasyn electric motor

Power, h. p.

3875 / 400 (AIP)

Max speed, kts

12 / 20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 8000(8) / 420(8)

Armament

6 - 533 TT (6 bow B-512, 12 torpedoes), provision for 24 mines

Electronic equipment

type 1007 radar, DBQS-40 sonar suite (FAS3-1, PRS3-15, AN5039A1, FMS-52, DSQS-21DG, TAS-3), FL-1800U ECM suite, 2x C-303 decoy RL, CIRCE torpedo decoy launcher, MSI-90U CCS

Complement

27

Diving depth operational, m

300

   

Project history: Built under a late-1995 cooperative agreement between Italy and Germany: program development began in Germany in 1988. First two were formally ordered during 1998. Subassembly work on the first unit commenced during 1999. Two additional units were ordered in 2008. Use a nonmagnetic Type 1.3964 austenitic steel pressure hull, 7.0 m in diameter forward, tapering via a conical section to 5.75 m abaft the control room; i.e., the boats are single-hulled forward and double-hulled aft; two accommodations decks forward. The engineering plant is suspended in a raft for sound reduction, with individual engines also using soundproof mountings. The air-independent propulsion (ATP) system employs an advanced Howaldtswerke solid-polymer, metal-hydride fuel cell system and is able to propel the submarine to a maximum speed of 8 kts exclusive of the main battery. Carry hydrazine gas generators to blow tanks for emergency surfacing. An Italian-developed ship-control system was fitted; normal maximum operating depth is greater than 300 m. The torpedo tubes use the water-ram ejection method, using two water rams. The torpedo tube arrangement is asymmetrical, with two rows of three tubes, placing four tubes to port of the centerline.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Salvatore Todaro 2007

 

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