List of submarine classes

This is a list of submarine classes, sorted by country. The navies of 46 states operate submarines. Algeria Raïs Hadj Mubarek class (Type 877EKM Kilo) Raïs Hadj Slimane class (Type 877EKM Kilo) 2 Project 636 (in order)Albania Whiskey classArgentina Armada de la República Argentina: Santa Fe class (1930s built in Italy — decommissioned) Santa Fe (1960s US-built Balao class - decommissioned) Santa Fe S-21 (1970s US-built GUPPY - decommissioned) Santa Cruz class (German-built TR-1700 - one remaining boat inactive) Salta class (German-built Type 209/1200 - inactive; one used for dockside training...

List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes

Submarines of the Soviet Navy were developed by numbered "projects", which were sometimes but not always given names. During the Cold War, NATO nations referred to these classes by NATO reporting names, based on intelligence data, which did not always correspond with the projects. See: List of NATO reporting names for ballistic missile submarines List of NATO reporting names for guided missile submarines List of NATO reporting names for hunter-killer and experimental submarinesThe NATO reporting names were based on the British (and later American) habit of naming submarines with a letter of the alphabet indicating the class, followed by a serial number of that class. The names are the radiotelephonic alphabet call sign of a letter of the alphabet. For security purposes, the "pennant numbers" of Soviet submarines were not sequential, any more than those of Soviet surface vessels were. Most Russian (and Soviet...