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What Stokholm wants from Saab Kockums is to: conduct the overhaul of three Gotland-class subs, desing and build 2-4 new conventional AIP subs (probably of the A26 project or by working on a new design from the start) and design new light-weight torpedos for Gotlands and new subs. That's why the...

Yeah, recently they got order worth 11,4 bln Krona to finish the design and start delivery of new subs in 2015-2024.

Agreed, but ther's a difference between making an upgraded version of one sub desing (let's say, Mk2, Mk3 etc.) and a completely new sub desing.

Yeah, but it doesn't change a thing. A26 is still just a project. First subs for Svenska Marinen are expected to be haded over in couple of years.

Ok, but you have to anwser yourself, whether you want a sub of a new design, possiblity slightly more advanced than Scorpene or Type 214 - BUT not tested and actually with no confidence in its operational potential or do you want a sub that has been in service for years and can still provide you...

It's just a project. After taking over Kockums from TKMS, Saab has to make up its mind if it wants to continue on the A26 or start o new project (or at least develope a modified A26). Sole A26 is a bit obselete now (first design works started in the 1990').

S-80 is still being developed and Navantia has had some problems with it (design flaws), so they even don't know, when they will commission first vessel for themeselves, hence it hasn't been tested in operational conditions.

Well I can just say, that among Polish soldiers (and Poland was a member of the Warsaw Pact, so for many decades its equipment was almost purely soviet), the Soviets had one simple rule - make it cheap, make it easy to maintain, make it easy to operate even for a low rank soldier and make a lot...

As much I like India, I have to make a point, that many of those wars were fought against an enemy who was also using soviet/russian (or based on that design) equipment. Iraqis had soviet/russian equipment as well, but their lost in the Persian Gulf as well as in 2003, not only to US, but also...

Yep, but it still changes nothing. Swedish will sell the AIP technology for the Jap-Australian new sub class, just as they did for Soryu.