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GOTLAND SUBMARINE MODEL

Gotland submarine is a small Swedish diesel-powered submarine. In 2005, USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier sank after being hit by multiple torpedoes during a war game pitting a carrier task force including numerous antisubmarine escorts against Gotland. Despite making multiple attacks on the Reagan, the Gotland submarine was never detected.

The story began on September 16, 2000 when HSwMS Halland took part in a multi-national exercise in the Mediterranean. There she remained undetected while still recording many of her friendly adversaries, attracting interest from the participating countries. In early November the same year, she participated in a NATO "blue-water" exercise in the Atlantic. There, she won a victory in a mock "duel" with Spanish naval units, and then the same in similar duel against a French nuclear-powered attack submarine. She also "defeated" an American the USS Houston submarine.



Soon, the Swedish government received a request from the United States to lease the Gotland submarine– Swedish commanded and manned, for a duration of one year for use in antisubmarine warfare exercises. The Swedish government granted this request. The lease was extended for another 12 months.

HSwMS Gotland managed to snap several pictures of USS Ronald Reagan during a wargaming exercise in the Pacific Ocean, effectively "sinking" the aircraft carrier. The exercise was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the US fleet against diesel-electric submarines.

How was the Gotland submarine able to evade the USS Reagan’s elaborate antisubmarine defenses involving multiple ships and aircraft employing a multitude of sensors? Diesel submarines in the past were limited by the need to operate noisy, air-consuming engines that meant they could remain underwater for only a few days before needing to surface. Naturally, a submarine is most vulnerable, and can be most easily tracked, when surfaced, even when using a snorkel.



However, the two-hundred-foot-long Swedish Gotland submarine, introduced in 1996, were the first to employ an Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system. A Stirling engine charges the submarine’s seventy-five-kilowatt battery using liquid oxygen. With the Stirling, a Gotland submarine can remain undersea for up to two weeks sustaining an average speed of six miles per hour—or it can expend its battery power to surge up to twenty-three miles per hour. A conventional diesel engine is used for operation on the surface or while employing the snorkel. The Stirling-powered Gotland runs more quietly than even a nuclear-powered submarine.

The Gotland submarine possess many other features that make it adept at evading detection. It mounts twenty-seven electromagnets designed to counteract its magnetic signature to Magnetic Anomaly Detectors. Its hull benefits from sonar-resistant coatings, while the tower is made of radar-absorbent materials. Machinery on the interior is coated with rubber acoustic-deadening buffers to minimize detectability by sonar. The Gotland submarine is also exceedingly maneuverable thanks to the combined six maneuvering surfaces on its X-shaped rudder and sail, allowing it to operate close to the sea floor and pull off tight turns.

Because the stealthy submarine proved the ultimate challenge to U.S. antisubmarine ships in international exercises, the U.S. Navy leased the Gotland and its crew for two entire years to conduct antisubmarine exercises. The results convinced the U.S. Navy its undersea sensors simply were not up to dealing with the stealthy AIP boats.

This primarily wood Gotland submarine model is 17" x 9" x 4" (1/100) $1,219   Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $200 flat rate.  This model is in stock and can be shipped within five business days.

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For another submarine that sank an aircraft carrier in a military exercise: Le Saphir.

Learn more about the Gotland submarine here: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/swedens-super-stealth-submarines-are-so-lethal-they-sank-us-18383

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine