Submarine Operations in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea: A Historical Backgrounder
INTRODUCTION Since the 90’s, two of the six claimant countries in the disputed Spratly Group of Islands possessed submarines in their respective fleets. After the year 2000, this would change with the arrival of the French-built Scorpene and the Russian Kilo Class Submarines in the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) and the Vietnam Peoples Navy (VPN) in 2014. Things are about…