List of submarine operators
Countries with currently operational submarines
File:S-120 Papanikolis 1.jpg Type 214 submarine]]
File:RIAN archive 187524 The crew of a diesel-powered Varshavyanka -Kilo--class submarine.jpg Kilo-class submarine]]
File:FNS Amethyste (S605) visits Naval Submarine Base New London 210901-N-GR655-368.jpg Rubis-class submarine]]
- Algeria{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/africa/algeria.htm |title=World Navies Today: Algeria|website=hazegray.org}}
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Brazil{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/brazil.htm |title=World Navies Today: Brazil|website=hazegray.org}}
- Canada
- Chile{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/chile.htm |title=World Navies Today: Chile|website=hazegray.org}}
- Colombia{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/colombia.htm |title=World Navies Today: Colombia|website=hazegray.org}}
- Cuba - One indigenous design submarine was reported in service in 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/03/01/new-photo-reveals-cuban-navys-secret-submarine/|title=New Photo Reveals Cuban Navy's Secret Submarine|last=Sutton|first=H. I.|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-03-02}}
- Ecuador{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/ecuador.htm |title=World Navies Today: Ecuador|website=hazegray.org}}
- Egypt{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/africa/egypt.htm |title=World Navies Today: Egypt|website=hazegray.org}}
- France (list)
- Germany (list)
- Greece
- India (list)
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Italy (list)
- Israel
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Netherlands (list){{cite web|url=http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/ |title=Dutch Submarines: The Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy|website=dutchsubmarines.com}}
- North Korea
- Norway
- Pakistan
- People's Republic of China
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Peru{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/peru.htm |title=World Navies Today: Peru|website=hazegray.org}}
- Poland
- Portugal (list){{cite web|url=http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,5862,00.html |title=Fuel Cell Today - Portuguese navy orders two submarines with Siemens fuel cell technology|access-date=2005-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050817031250/http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,5862,00.html |archive-date=2005-08-17|url-status=dead}}
- Russia (list) (some ex-Soviet Union)
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain (list){{cite web|url=http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/spain/spain164.html |title=Spain - Navy|website=reference.allrefer.com}}
- Sweden (list)
- Thailand
- Turkey (list)
- United Kingdom (list)
- United States (list)
- Venezuela{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/venez.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629103534/http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/americas/venez.htm |archive-date=2011-06-29 |title=World Navies Today: Venezuela|date=June 29, 2011}}
- Vietnam
Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN)
File:Jin (Type 094) Class Ballistic Missile Submarine.JPG Type 094 submarine]]
File:Sub Marine.jpg Arihant Class Submarine]]
Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
- China – Type 094 submarine, Type 092 submarine
- France – {{sclass|Triomphant|submarine|4}}
- India – {{sclass|Arihant|submarine|}}
- Russia – {{sclass2|Delta|submarine|5}} and {{sclass2|Borei|submarine|4}}es
- United Kingdom – {{sclass|Vanguard|submarine|4}}
- United States – {{sclass|Ohio|submarine|4}}
Countries previously operating submarines
- Albania - all retired 1998
- Argentina - Two submarines inactive (non-operational) in the Argentinian Navy.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuestromar.org/defensa-y-seguridad/estiman-que-la-llegada-del-proximo-submarino-operativo-para-argentina-demoraria-de-cinco-a-seis-anos/|title=Estiman que la llegada del próximo submarino operativo para Argentina demoraría de cinco a seis años|language=Spanish|work=Fundación Nuestro Mar|date=8 September 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.infodefensa.com/latam/2020/12/23/noticia-rossi-argentina-argentina-tiene-tener-fuerza-aerea-aviones-supersonicos.html|title=A. Rossi Argentina: Argentina tiene que tener una Fuerza Aérea con aviones supersónicos 2|work=Infodefensa|language=Spanish}}
- Austria-Hungary (list)
- Bulgaria - all retired by 2011
- Cuba - Operated 3 {{sclass2|Foxtrot|submarine|2}}s retired.
- Denmark{{cite web|url=http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/Naval_Lists/Types/Submarines.htm |title=Danish Submarines 1909-2004|website=navalhistory.dk}} - retired after 2003
- Estonia (Kalev and {{ship|EML|Lembit||2}}) - decommissioned 1955 in the Soviet Navy
- Finland - last subs decommissioned after World War II
- Latvia - all submarines taken over by Soviet Union in 1940.
- Libya - all Foxtrot-class submarines retired (1 non-commissioned remains docked)
- Romania ({{ship|Romanian submarine|Delfinul||2}}, not operational; used for dockside training){{Cite web|last=Adamowski|first=Jaroslaw|date=2018-02-09|title=Romania to buy 3 sub, 4 ships to bolster Black Sea ops|url=https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/02/09/romania-to-buy-3-sub-4-ships-to-bolster-black-sea-ops/|access-date=2021-07-26|website=Defense News|language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/europe/romania.htm |title=World Navies Today: Romania|website=hazegray.org}}
- Serbia and Montenegro (ex-Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) {{cite web|url=http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/europe/yugo.htm |title=World Navies Today: Yugoslavia|website=hazegray.org}}
- Soviet Union (list) (prior to 1991 collapse, many now operated by successor state Russia)
- Syria - all {{sclass2|Romeo|submarine|2}}s retired around 1992
- Thailand ({{sclass|Matchanu|submarine|4}} during the Franco-Thai War - built in Japan 1938 and retired 1951)
- Ukraine ({{ship|Ukrainian submarine|Zaporizhzhia||2}} - lost to Russia in the annexation of Crimea){{cite web |url=http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/3401903-korrespondent-na-malenkom-flotu-na-chto-seichas-sposobny-ostatky-ukraynskoho-flota |script-title=ru:Корреспондент: На маленьком флоту. На что сейчас способны остатки украинского флота |work=Korrespondent |last=Seleznev |first=Denis |language=ru |date=6 August 2014 |access-date=18 June 2015}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.janes.com Jane's]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050330085241/http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/submarine/subarticlescntry.htm Submarine Warfare in the 20th & 21st Centuries:Bibliography]
- [http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/ World Navies Today]
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