Spanish Navy's subsurface threat now reliant on a single submarine
With the last of the Galerna-class SSKs retired, the Spanish Navy has just a single modern S-80 submarine in operation.
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With the last of the Galerna-class SSKs retired, the Spanish Navy has just a single modern S-80 submarine in operation.
The four Spanish (S 70/Galerna) boats entered service between 1983 and 1985, but have now all been decommissioned, leaving Spain with just one active submarine.
Spain’s Ministry of Defence called for “a new and specific mission, with its own scope, means and objectives, agreed upon by the corresponding EU bodies” to “guarantee maritime security” in the Red Sea.
The S-80A Plus, a new class of ocean-going submarines, will enhance the Spanish Navy’s capabilities despite the challenges and delays experienced during their development and delivery.
The first of the new S-80 generation of military submarines, the S-81 ‘Isaac Peral’, has been put into service by the Spanish navy in Cartagena. Manufactured by Spanish firm Navantia, the government claimed that the vessel puts the country ‘in the club’ of about 10 nations with the capacity to de