German submarine U-36 (S186)

U-36 (S186) is a Type 212A submarine of the German Navy. She is the sixth ship of the class to enter service.

For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-36.
History
Germany
Name: U-36
Builder: Howaldtswerke, Kiel
Laid down: 19 August 2008
Launched: 6 February 2013
Commissioned: 10 October 2016
Status: In active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Type 212
Type: submarine
Displacement:
  • 1,450 tonnes (1,430 long tons) surfaced
  • 1,830 tonnes (1,800 long tons) submerged
Length:
  • 56 m (183.7 ft)
  • 57.2 m (187.66 ft) (2nd batch)
Beam: 7 m (22.96 ft)
Draft: 6 m (19.68 ft)
Installed power: 1 x MTU-396 16V (2,150 kW); 1 x Siemens Permasyn electric motor Type FR6439-3900KW (2,850 kW)
Propulsion:
  • 1 MTU 16V 396 diesel-engine[1]
  • 9 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells, 30–40 kW each (U31)
  • 2 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells each with 120 kW (U32, U33, U34)[2]
  • 1 Siemens Permasyn electric motor 1700 kW, driving a single seven-bladed skewback propeller
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h) submerged, 12 knots surfaced[3]
Range:
  • 8,000 nm (14,800 km, or 9,196 miles) at 8 knots (15 km/h) surfaced
  • 3 weeks without snorkeling, 12 weeks overall
Endurance: Surface 14,800 km at 15 km/h, Subsurface 780 km at 15 km/h, 3,000 nmi at 4 kn,
Test depth: over 700 m (2,296 ft)[4]
Complement: 5 officers, 22 men
Sensors and
processing systems:		 CSU 90 (DBQS-40FTC), Sonar: ISUS90-20, Radar: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I-band nav.,
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 EADS FL 1800U suite
Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes (in 2 forward pointing groups of 3) with 13[5] DM2A4, A184 Mod.3, Black Shark Torpedo, IDAS missiles and 24 external naval mines (optional)

She was laid down in August 2008 by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, launched in February 2013 and commissioned on 10 October 2016.[6] She is under the patronage of the town of Plauen, in Saxony. The commissioning ceremony took place at Eckernförde in the presence of the Deputy Inspector of the Navy and Commander of the Fleet and Support Staff, Vice-Admiral Rainer Brinkmann, the Minister of the Interior and Federal Affairs of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Stefan Studt, the head of the Schleswig-Holstein State Chancellery Thomas Losse-Müller, and the commander of Einsatzflottille 1 Jan Christian Kaack. U-36's first commander on commissioning was Korvettenkapitän Christoph Ploß.[6]

Service

U-36 is currently part of the 1st Ubootgeschwader, based in Eckernförde. In January 2015 Der Spiegel reported that significant problems had been found with U-36 and her sister submarine U-35. The drive shaft system, battery, radar and the radio buoy were all found to be malfunctioning.[7][8] In March 2015 U-36 began trials in the Kattegat off Kristiansand.[9]

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References
  1. "MTU 16V 396 diesel engine". Archived from the original on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2006-10-08.
  2. Holger Naaf: Die Brennstoffzelle auf U 212 A (PDF, German). Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Schiffe und Marinewaffen Eckernförde, 23. September 2008.
  3. "Uboote Klasse 212A". Retrieved 2013-08-19.
  4. "Deutsche Marine TV-Interview" (in German). Retrieved 2007-04-17.
  5. "Dette er ubåtsjefens våte drøm - nyheter". Dagbladet.no. 2010-11-18. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  6. Presse- und Informationszentrum Marine (11 October 2016). "„U 36" im Dienst der Deutschen Marine" (in German). Bundeswehr. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  7. Frank Behling (18 January 2015). "Kieler U-Boote mangelhaft". KN-Online. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  8. Gordon Repinski, Marcel Rosenbach, Gerald Traufetter, "Das Boot", Der Spiegel, 4 July (4), pp. 40–42CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Presse- und Informationszentrum Marine (12 March 2015). "Abnahme von „U 36" in vollem Gange" (in German). Bundeswehr. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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