Germany's Submarine

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Andreas Noll, High-Tech Submarines a Last Pillar of German Shipbuilding. Deutsche Welle, June 5, 2012.
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15998562,00.html
("The submarines are vital to Germany's shipbuilding industry. With the manufacture of traditional freighters having shifted to China and South Korea, the subs along with cruise ships are one of the last pillars of Germany's shipbuilding industry")

Note: Type 214 submarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_214_submarine
(HDW; The Type 214 submarine is derived from the Type 212 [whose operators are German and Italian navies], but as an export variant [operators: S Korea, Greece and Portugal] it lacks some of the classified technologies of its smaller predecessor)

Not to be confused with
Dolphin class submarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_class_submarine
(HDW; for the Israeli Navy only; lead ship: Dolphin – delivered May 1998 – commissioned 1999)