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Publish Date : 31-Jan-2017

The government of Thailand has approved its Navy's proposed procurement of S26T (Thailand) submarines from China, and has assigned THB13.5 billion (USD383 million) to support first of three.
This was included in Thailand's 2017 Budget Bill which has been passed by the country's National Legislative Assembly.

Additional funding would be assigned for a further two submarines, with total funding for Royal Thai Navy's three-boat programme to hit THB36 billion.
The vessel is expected to be ready to start service in six years time.

Navy representative ACM Jumpol Loompikanon said: "This first submarine will cost considerably more than the other two -- which will be purchased later -- because the 13.5 billion baht will also cover weapon system costs, training courses for the crews, visits by Chinese personnel and various maintenance cost."

The S26T is said to be based on the Type 039A SSK of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) also refered as Yuan class.

It was initially commissioned in 2008 with a displacement of 3,600 tons and a length of 75 meters.

It is expected to feature an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system as an auxiliary system to a regular diesel-electric power.

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