News Forum - Thailand to consider Chinese engines for S26T Yuan submarine

[Thaiger]

The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) yesterday revealed it is considering buying Chinese-made engines for the S26T Yuan-class submarine after complications in purchasing the said technology from Germany. Thailand originally turned down the offer of using Chinese-made engines for the Chinese submarine the Thai Government approved to buy in 2017 in favour of using German-made engines. But since the German government refuses to supply MTU396 diesel engines Thailand has been stuck between a rock and hard place. The German government prohibited the export of the engines to China because of their use for military purposes, as Germany is bound by a […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

Thailand’s reluctance to buy the Chinese CHD620 diesel engines appears to stem from the fact that those engines have not been tested or used in a submarine before.

Weld the exhaust pipe along the periscope.

[Prosaap]

of course It will pass the test just how impressed they are with the bom detector to find out later it was a empty box and then some genius had every single one of them tested for about 20.000 bath i predict it will become a very famous engine 

[anarchofarmer]

Why not nick the engine from the aircraft carrier which never goes to sea? They wouldn't notice!