Der südkoreanische Schiffbauer zieht sich aus der Hamilton-Partnerschaft zurück, nachdem er die Ausschreibung für einen Marine-U-Boot-Auftrag verloren hat

Sucks cause I love SK 🙁

Hopefully Germany and Norway defense manufacture can deliver on schedule and on time without any cost overrun, while SK had shown multiple times that they could deliver on schedule and under budget especially with their K1 deal with Poland.

I would have liked to see each company get 6 subs. SK can go to the Pacific and Germany the Atlantic. I get that there would be two different crew types and not necessarily interchangeable. We would need to stock two different sets of parts and all that. Maybe put in the contracts incentives on on/under budget/time to delivery, building partially in Canada that sort of stuff.

But the part that bugs me the most is it took until yesterday just to get decent submarines instead of left over junk. Wish we had done this in the 80’s.

I thought that SK was going to win based on politics, and us wanting to forge a new partnership with SK more than just reestablish with Germany. The sub is a sub regardless of who makes it, and it’s going to go underwater, launch torpedoes and go ‚bing‘.

Or maybe I’m wrong about priorities.

Add 10 years + Never to the actual delivery date of the German subs.

Money will be paid regardless.

Remember when we bought those British subs