You're looking in the wrong placeds I guess.
The Chinese have the Kilos which they bought from Russia, 2 of them were 877EKM, the other 2 were 636 version. The latter has a 7-blade skew propellor and some changes on the aft part just in front of the upper rudder. The former has a 6-blade non-skew propellor. The second batch they bought were all 636 version. Then you have the Yuan, which is a Chinese built sub, which resembles the Kilo somewhat, but is still substantially different. You can't really convert a Kilo into a Yuan. The first of the more modern Chinese SSKs is the Song, it's pretty much a copied Agosta (they probably obtained plans of it through their Pakistani allies). Again you can't convert an Agosta into a Song, but the general lay-out, including a French sonar is obviously based on it.
Then you also have the Golf subs and currently they seem to have delopped something similar based on the Yuan. Never did much research into Golf or Romeo, so can't help you that. Perhaps Hermill can.
You're looking in the wrong placeds I guess.
The Chinese have the Kilos which they bought from Russia, 2 of them were 877EKM, the other 2 were 636 version. The latter has a 7-blade skew propellor and some changes on the aft part just in front of the upper rudder. The former has a 6-blade non-skew propellor. The second batch they bought were all 636 version. Then you have the Yuan, which is a Chinese built sub, which resembles the Kilo somewhat, but is still substantially different. You can't really convert a Kilo into a Yuan. The first of the more modern Chinese SSKs is the Song, it's pretty much a copied Agosta (they probably obtained plans of it through their Pakistani allies). Again you can't convert an Agosta into a Song, but the general lay-out, including a French sonar is obviously based on it.
Then you also have the Golf subs and currently they seem to have delopped something similar based on the Yuan. Never did much research into Golf or Romeo, so can't help you that. Perhaps Hermill can.
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