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KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY NAVAL FORCE (NORTH KOREA)

SUBMARINES

YUGO midget submarines (1969-1988)

1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
i     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 lost 22.8.1998?
ii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
iii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
iv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
v     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
vi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
vii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
viii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
ix     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
x     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 1990s?
xi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2000s?
xii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2000s?
xiii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2000s?
xiv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xvi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xvii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xviii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xix     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xx     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxiii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxiv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxvi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxvii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxviii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxix     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxx     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxiii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxiv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxvi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxvii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxviii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xxxix     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xl     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xli     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xlii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xliii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xliv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xlv     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xlvi     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xlvii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 stricken 2010s?
xlviii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 in service (2019)?
xlix     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 in service (2019)?
l     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 in service (2019)?
li     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 in service (2019)?
lii     Yukdaeso-ri     1969-88 in service (2019)?
  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

90 / 110

Length, m

24.0

Breadth, m

3.10

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

1

Machinery

2 MTU diesel-generators, 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

320

Max speed, kts

12 / 8

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

550(10) / 50(4)

Armament

12 boats: 2 - 400 TT (bow, 2)

38 boats: none

Military load

12 boats: none

38 boats: 6-7 special forces personnel, 1 rubber boat, small arms, AT rockets

Electronic equipment

nav radar (on some)

Complement

2

Diving depth operational, m

100

Project history: Western nickname derives from the probably erroneous belief that Yugoslavia provided some design and technical support input to this extremely primitive design. Primarily intended for the insertion of saboteurs and other special forces personnel and operated for (and possibly by) the Reconnaissance Bureau of the Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces rather than the navy proper.The casing and sail are made of GRP. There are 10 watertight compartments to the pressure hull. Small arms and antitank rockets are carried for the saboteur swimmers, as is a rubber boat.

Modernizations: none

Naval service: One unarmed unit was caught in a fishing net off the northeast coast of South Korea on 22-8-98 and after the murder/suicide of the nine-man crew was brought into a South Korean port; the craft was not equipped with a sonar system and had no torpedo tubes.

captured craft 1998

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