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German Submarines – Capabilities and Potential

By Captain Raimund Wallner
13 Oct 2006

Raimund Wallner, of the German Navy, is the head of the Underwater Systems Section in the Armaments Directive of the German Federal Ministry of Defence. In this article, he describes the latest German submarine programmes and their potential for the future.

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