Okręt podwodny typu Hai Kun (rodzimy okręt podwodny obronny)

Bilans

Znaczenie dla konfliktów

To jedyny wpis katalogu dla tego systemu. Jest istotny dla modułu poniżej; Force Atlas każdego modułu pokazuje, jak jest tam używany.

Użytkownicy

Taiwan (Republic of China): Prototype in sea trials; not an in-service capability

Rola na polu walki

Intended for sea denial in the waters and approaches around Taiwan.

Mocne strony

Submarines are among the hardest platforms to find and neutralise, and building them domestically after decades of being unable to buy them is a substantial industrial achievement with real deterrent signalling value.

Ograniczenia

The programme is slow, expensive and unproven: the prototype has been conducting sea trials rather than entering service, and schedules have moved repeatedly. Critics within the asymmetric-defence school argue the cost would buy far more denial capability in missiles, mines and small craft. Vigil records the trials as reported milestones and makes no claim about capability, timeline or fleet size.

Znaczenie dla kampanii

Wyprowadzone: organizacja uczestnicząca w tych kampaniach ma typowane powiązanie ze sprzętem dotyczące tego systemu. To nie to samo co udokumentowane użycie systemu w samej kampanii.

• Utrzymująca się presja poniżej progu Nasilenie od 2020 r.

  via ROC Navy (Prospective, moderate confidence)

• Przymusowe przechwytywanie morskie — od kwarantanny do blokady Oceniany scenariusz awaryjny

  via ROC Navy (Prospective, moderate confidence)

Identyfikacja wizualna

A conventional diesel-electric submarine with an X-form stern rudder arrangement — four angled control surfaces rather than the cruciform layout of the older boats Taiwan operates — and a slender sail set well forward. The X-stern is the distinguishing feature and is visible only out of the water.

Udokumentowane użycie w konflikcie

Launched in September 2023 and engaged in harbour and sea trials since, with delivery repeatedly rescheduled; the boat has not entered operational service. It left on its 21st sea trial, the 15th with submerged testing, on 21 September 2026, having missed the November 2025 delivery deadline its builder attributed to testing delays. Follow-on hulls are funded in Taiwan's special defence budgets and are the subject of continuing legislative argument. Vigil records trials and budget decisions as reported milestones and makes no claim about capability, timeline or eventual fleet size — this is the record in the Taiwanese catalogue where the gap between programme announcement and delivered capability is widest, and the confidence grade says so.

Użytkownicy w rodzajach sił i służbach

• Marynarka Wojenna Republiki Chińskiej Prospective

Reported & historical formation associations

• Dowództwo Floty Marynarki Wojennej Republiki Chińskiej Prospective · moderate confidence

  Programme in trials; not an in-service capability claim.