List of submarine operators
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The following countries operate or have operated submarines for naval or other military purposes.
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Countries with currently operational submarines
File:U Boot 212 HDW 1.jpg
Type 212 submarine of the German Navy in dock
- Algeria [1]
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh on order
- Brazil [2]
- Canada
- Chile [3]
- Colombia [4]
- Ecuador [5]
- Egypt [6]
- France
- Germany (list)
- Greece
- India (list)
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Italy (list)
- Israel
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Netherlands (list) [7]
- North Korea
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Peoples Republic of China
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Peru [8]
- Poland
- Portugal (list) [9]
- Russia (list) (some ex-Soviet Union)
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain (list) [10]
- Sweden (list)
- Turkey (list)
- United Kingdom (list)
- United States (list)
- Venezuela [11]
- Vietnam
Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN)
Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
- China – Type 094 submarine, Type 092 submarine
- France – Triomphant class
- Russia – Typhoon, Delta, and Borei classes
- United Kingdom – Vanguard class
- United States – Ohio class
- India – Arihant class
Countries previously operating submarines
- Albania - all retired 1998
- Austria-Hungary (list)
- Bulgaria - all retired by 2011
- Cuba - all three Foxtrot class submarines retired
- Denmark [12] - retired after 2003
- Estonia (Kalev and Lembit) - decommissioned 1955 in the Soviet Navy
- Finland - last subs decommissioned after World War II
- Latvia - all submarines taken over by Soviet Union in 1940
- Libya - all Foxtrot class submarines retired (1 non-commissioned remains docked)
- Romania (Delfinul submarine, under repair) [13]
- Serbia and Montenegro (ex-Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) [14]
- Soviet Union (list) (prior to 1991 collapse, many now operated by successor state Russia)
- Syria - all Romeo class submarines retired around 1992
- Thailand (Matchanu class during the Franco-Thai War - built in Japan 1938 and retired 1951)
- Ukraine (Zaporizhzhia submarine - Ukraine lost by Russia in 2014 Crimean crisis) [15]
