Submarine S43 transferred to Egypt fleet

Third in a series of Egyptian submarines type 209-1400Mod, production of tkMS, was transferred on 9 April in Kiel to the user.

Due to exacerbations Coronavirus epidemic, transmission S43 (867) intimately, without a normal military orchestra in such cases, speeches and gatherings. The new ship left Kilonia in the ace of the frigate ENS Taba (F916), type Oh. H. Perry (ex-USS) Gallery FFG-26) and will pass through the Kilon Canal and the English Channel to Alexandria, to which it should reach in about 3 weeks.

Egypt ordered a total of 4 new ships adapted to use the latest torpedoes SeaHake German production and missile missiles UGM-84L Sub-Harpoon. They will replace four obsolete ships in service 633/Romeo (modified with Chinese aid to Chinese type standard 033A/ES5B), also adapted for use Harpoons. Thus the fleet of Egypt, the country of the "third world" in which the revolution took place in 2011 and in 2013 the military coup d'état and the introduction of the military dictatorship in 2014, I now have a more modern submarine fleet from Poland, a NATO member and the European Union aspiring to join the G20 group.

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