Within the next 20 years more than 3200 naval vessels will be built. About 300 of them will be submarines and approx. 180 are assumed to be equipped with Air Independent Power Systems (AIP-Systems). The number of ROVs and AUVs will be much higher. On the background of decreasing resources and increasing complexity of naval vessels and naval submarines there is an increasing trend to use the technical experience and know how of classification societies to built and operate naval vessels and submarines. On this background Germanischer Lloyd developed and published Rules for Construction and Classification of Naval Ships (GL Rules Group III). These rules are based on more than 30 years of experience with survey, inspection and classification of naval ships. The recently published Chapter 2 of these rules ("Sub Surface Ships") are presented here.
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