According to reports, Taiwan's navy said that its 256 Combat Team "Sea Tigers"** suffered an accident in which equipment fell off while performing a mission. During the floating sailing, due to a sudden swell, six officers and soldiers including Major Chen accidentally fell into the sea, but fortunately they were all wearing life jackets. **Immediately carry out personnel rescue and emergency treatment, and set up an emergency response center. The S70C Sea Hawk anti-submarine *** and a number of neighboring ships also joined the search and rescue operation. At present, three of the officers and soldiers have been rescued and are conscious, but the other three missing officers and soldiers are still being searched and rescued.
The command of the Navy said that if there is no rescue in the winter sea for a long time, the chances of survival will be low. According to reports, the "Sea Tiger" ** is actually the "Sea Tiger" conventionally powered attack submarine, numbered SS-794, which belongs to the Stegosaurus-class conventional submarine of the 256 Squadron and is one of the main submarines of the Taiwan Navy. The submarine has the main tasks of anti-ship, anti-submarine and support for special operations.
It is one of two Stegosaurus-class submarines commissioned by Taiwan from the Netherlands in 1982 with a total length of 6692 meters, full width 8It has a displacement of 4 meters, a displacement of 2,300 tons, a maximum underwater speed of 20 knots, a self-sustaining force of up to 60 days, and can carry 66 officers and soldiers. The power plant consists of three 120Rub215 diesel engines and two 196 honeycomb batteries with 4,050 hp. The submarine "Sea Tiger" was initially equipped with German-made SUT heavy torpedoes, but now it can be equipped"Harpoon"Anti-ship missiles.
The submarine has six 533mm torpedo tubes and carries a total of 26 torpedoes. However, despite the fact that the equipment looks quite powerful, the submarine "Sea Tiger" has been in service for more than 30 years and is therefore considered an "old submarine", which has had a number of accidents in recent years. On 11 June 2001, during a routine hoisting of a German-made SUT heavy torpedo, the nose of one torpedo was damaged due to an accidental collision with an angle iron inside the submarine. Fortunately, the fuse of the torpedo was not triggered, otherwise it would well have been triggered.
In addition, on 25 October 2001, during a routine tactical evasive exercise, the submarine accidentally crashed into a sea-bottom sand dam at a depth of 150 meters in the sea outside Zuoying, resulting in serious damage to the sonar shield and the destruction of 13 sets of listening sticks inside. The submarine "Sea Tiger" has been in service for more than 30 years and is clearly quite old. It is worth mentioning that this is not the first accident in which a person fell overboard on a Taiwanese submarine in recent years.
On the afternoon of September 14, 2009, another submarine named "Hailong" was conducting a drill off the coast of Zuoying Military Port, when the captain of the submarine, Colonel Chen Jizong, was shot down into the sea by a sudden 14-meter-high swell while commanding from the height of the control tower, and disappeared. When Chen Jizong was swept away by the waves, he struggled about 20 meters from the tail of the submarine. Lieutenant Colonel Sun Ronglu, the deputy captain of the boat, said that he had dropped the lifebuoy, but the waves were too huge for the captain to obtain the lifebuoy. The submarine immediately turned to search and rescue, but less than eight minutes later, the captain was never seen again.
At that time, in addition to me and the captain (the Taiwanese submarine is called a submarine, so it is called the captain), there were also four soldiers. Suddenly, a swell about 14 meters high hit, and we each grabbed the protective barrier. Looking back, the captain was gone. Sun Ronglu said that at that time, the captain "sitting" at the top of the control tower, probably because he was too late to react and was swept into the sea by the huge waves. Both incidents occurred on the submarine conning tower, indicating that such submarines have serious safety risks. The captain of the submarine "Sea Dragon" was swept into the sea by a large wave and disappeared.
These two incidents have revealed that there are major safety risks in the Stegosaurus-class submarines, and Taiwan has also questioned the professionalism of Taiwan's submarine force. At present, Taiwan has begun to build a new generation of submarines to replace the aging Stegosaurus-class submarines. However, the relevant ** shows that there are problems with the quality of the shell of the new submarine, which not only seriously affects the underwater silence effect of the submarine, but also may bring more serious safety risks. In the future, once it is put into service, the condition of the submarine is worrying. Among them, the ** of the submarines "Sea Tiger" and "Sea Dragon" were also made public.