A secret deal, with public money, for the wrong sub

Yep, why should the public know anything about the government spending
billions of its money? It’s a privilege reserved for the elite only, the rest of them taxpayers are nothing but stupid buffaloes right?
ezzra
Not buffaloes – mushrooms – keep them in the dark and from time to time shovel some s**t on them.
Farang99
The procurement was done by a rubberstamp committee under a government who are automatically pardoned for misdeeds.  The reason why Thailand needs submarines remains unclear. 
Western military organisations procure based on a reasonable threat. They tend to use the most advanced equipment where less advanced equipment would do a better more cost-effective job. 
Most military organisations procure poorly,  Thailand being the most glaring of examples. 
yellowboat
The Yuan S26T is actually a Yuan 039A, just renamed for export purposes.
This is what the respected US Naval Institute News has to say about the Yuan 039A:
“Yuan is a large conventional submarine, only marginally smaller than a Soryu-class boat – on the order of 15 per cent smaller. Perhaps a better comparison would be with the PLAN’s (People’s Liberation Army Navy) other large conventional submarine, the Russian-built Project 636 Kilo. That comparison shows the Yuan comes out as being slightly bigger than a late model Kilo. Thus the Type 039 A/B Yuan is not a small submarine at all. It is one of the largest conventional combat submarines in the PLAN inventory, and is no more manoeuvrable in shallow water than other large conventional submarine designs, such as the Kilo or Soryu-classes. If a navy truly wishes to invest in a “coastal submarine”, or SSC, then it would look at submarines like the German Type 205 and 206, and the North Korean Sango, all of which come in at less than 500 tons submerged displacement.”
So, the argument to use this sub as a shallow water sub has now been torpedoed. blub, blub, blub, blrrrp!
klauskunkel
Thaivisa