Viking-class submarine

The Viking-class submarine was a planned class of submarines to be built by the Viking Submarine Corporation. Viking was a corporation jointly established by Kockums in Sweden, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace in Norway and Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. Finland was an observer of the Viking project, as an eventual future buyer of additional Viking submarines.

K9D Viking Class submarine (model)
Class overview
Name: Viking class
Builders: Viking Submarine Corporation
Operators:
Succeeded by: A26 submarine
Planned: 10
Cancelled: Project cancelled
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 1,100–1,700 t (1,083–1,673 long tons)
Length: 52–60 m (171–197 ft)
Beam: 6.7 m (22 ft)
Propulsion: Stirling Air-independent propulsion (AIP)
Speed:
  • 11 knots (13 mph; 20 km/h) surfaced
  • 23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h) submerged
Endurance: Can stay submerged up to 100% of mission time
Complement: 22-28 men
Sensors and
processing systems:		 DMUX20 / TSM2233 Mk3[1]
Armament:

The idea was to develop modern successor to the Swedish Gotland class, that would have cost about 1/3 of the German Type 214.[2] It was initially planned that the Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian navies would purchase two, four, and four Viking-class submarines each starting in 2005.

When the Danish Navy announced that they would stop using submarines completely in the summer of 2004, the whole Viking project died out. Currently Kockums is doing low-intensive continuous research, based on the Viking design, towards the A26 submarine for Sweden.

On 2015 Damen Group and Saab Group announced that they have teamed up to jointly develop, offer and build next-generation submarines that are able to replace the current Walrus-class submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy.[3] It is speculated that the design will be derived from the A26 submarine.[4]

References
  1. Friedman, Norman (2006). The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems. Naval Institute Press. p. 615. ISBN 9781557502629.
  2. Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Saab and Damen Team for Walrus Future Submarine Replacement Programme". www.damen.com. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  4. "Saab en Damen tonen nieuw ontwerp onderzeeboot". www.marineschepen.nl. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
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