The following Table, based on frequently contradictory Sources, is a work in progress. The ultimate, probably, unattainable aim, is to build a table as complete as the SORYU TABLE.
1. Model | 2. No. | 3. Shipyard | 4. Launched | 5. Commiss ioned | Remarks | |
039A | 330 | 31 May 2004 | 2006 | East Sea | ||
039A | 331 | 2007 | 2009 | East Sea | ||
039A | 332 | Wuchang | 2007 | 2009 | East Sea | |
039A | 333 | Wuchang | 2008 | 2010 | East Sea | |
039B | 334 | Wuchang | 2010 | 2011 | East Sea | |
039B | 335 | Wuchang | 2010 | 2011 | East Sea | |
039B | 336 | Shanghai? Changxing | 2010 | 2011 | East Sea | |
039B | 337 | Shanghai | 2011? | 2012 | East Sea | |
039B | 338 | Wuchang | 2011? | 2012 | ||
039B | 339 | Wuchang | 2011? | 2012 | ||
039B | 340 | Shanghai? | ? | 2012 | North Sea | |
039B | 341 | Shanghai? | ? | 2012 | North Sea | |
039B | 342 | Wuchang | Dec 2013? | 2015 | ||
343 | Wuchang | 2015 | ||||
344 | Wuchang | Dec? 2016 | ||||
345 | Wuchang | Dec? 2016 | ||||
346 | Dec? 2016 | |||||
347 | ||||||
348 | ||||||
349 | Completing 20 for China | |||||
Export | Models | |||||
Wuchang | 2023 | 4 to be export to Pakistan | ||||
S20P | Wuchang | 2023 | to Pakistan | |||
S20P | Wuchang | 2023 | to Pakistan | |||
S20P | Wuchang | 2023 | to Pakistan | |||
S26T | Wuchang | |||||
S26T | Wuchang | 2026 | for Thailand | |||
S26T | Wuchang | 2026 | for Thailand | |||
S20P | Karachi shipyard | 2028 | 4 to be built in Pakistan | |||
S20P | Karachi | 2028 | Pakistan | |||
S20P | Karachi | 2028 | Pakistan | |||
S20P | Karachi | 2028 | Pakistan | |||
SOURCES
A. The most reliable data may be at column 5. “Commissioned”. This is drawn from Page 17, Table 1, “PLA Navy Submarine Commissionings” in Ronald O'Rourke's In China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress, June 17, 2016, CRS 7-5700 RL33153 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33153.pdf (PDF 10 MB).
- Column 3 is a puzzle with most Shipyard entries being Wuchangin far northeastern China but there are a few mentions of Shanghai, Changxing Shipyard, east central coastal China.
- The O'Rourke, CRS Table 1, disagrees with many sources on number of Yuans Commissioned in 2011 and 2012.
B. Right-click mouse to translate Taiwanese source 039A / B meta-level diesel attack submarines http://www.mdc.idv.tw/mdc/navy/china/039ab.htm . Then scroll 1/3 down, after all the photos, to see a Table with model, number, shipyard, launch, commission, fleet. Also see much information with specs and many more details model by model.
C. Sources: Global Security (January 2017) for some lauch, commission and export details.,
D. Much analytical information I haven't assessed yet at Submarines: Chinese Kilo Evolves Beyond the Original https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20170121.aspx of January 21, 2016 . With higher estimates of Yuans built and projected.
E. On S26T http://www.janes.com/article/66998/thailand-aims-to-operate-fleet-of-three-submarines-by-2026.
All of these Sources are useful to visit and revisit to build a more accurate Table(s).
Once the Yuans are more settled are China's Songs, Kilos, Mings, the odd Qing, SSNs then SSBNs.
Pete