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News about Australia looking for a replacement of its Collins-class sub has been in the news for quite awhile now. http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/three-way-submarine-race/story-e6frg6z6-1227361870149 Who should Australia select for their new sub? Politically speaking, Japan has the upper hand due to similar concerns over China. But concerning technical, experience, and cost, how do the three compare? Not sure how exactly they compare to each other. Also I don't think specific design proposals have been made yet but I don't know for sure.
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Asahai Shinbun reports: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201707190028.html
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Does anyone here know the story on why the Germans pursued both the 8.8cm KwK36 as mounted on the tiger I and the 7.5cm KwK42 as mounted on the panther? The 7.5cm weapon seems redundant, offering only slightly better armor penetration, significantly inferior HE load, and having ammo that's about the same size. Was this a political thing? I noticed that one is a Rheinmetall-Borsig design and the other from Krupp. While I'm at it, what's up with the claim on wikipedia that ammo for the FlaK 8.8s was percussion primed and the KwK36 ammo was electrically primed? Was this so? Why were the Germans so hot on having differently primed, and thus non-interchangeable versions of dimensionally identical ammunition (e.g. MG151/20)?
