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Sweden seeks to tighten NATO’s grip in Baltic Sea with 2 new submarines

Charlie Duxbury
31 January 2024
Archived
8 min
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Sweden is building two new A26 attack submarines, Blekinge and Skåne, set for launch in 2027 and 2028.

Summary

  1. Designed to patrol NATO's eastern reaches of the Baltic.
  2. Sweden's first new submarines since the mid-1990s.
  3. Sweden has seen incursions and cable cutting in its area from an unidentified perpetrator.
READ: Sweden seeks to tighten NATO’s grip in Baltic Sea with 2 new submarines

References

  • Media Check: Politico - Media Bias/Fact Check (HIGH CREDIBILITY)
  • Collections |The Runway (airforce.gov.au)
  • ADDITIONAL READING RAAF RUNWAY (PME)
  • RAAF RUNWAY: RATIONALE, GUIDELINES, LEARNING OUTCOMES, ETC
 

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