Japan Builds Larger Subs For New Mission

Japan will keep building the world’s largest and most sophisticated diesel-electric submarines at a rate of about one per year until at least 2015. Studies for a follow-on design have been underway since 2005 for a notional fiscal year 2016 submarine to be completed in 2021. If the 40-year trend of...

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