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| | Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine: World Navies in Review, by A.D. Baker III |
 | | Meanwhile, the the sixth of nine license-built German Type 209/1200 submarines, the Chong Un, was commissioned in March 1998, and the seventh, the Lee Sun-sin, was launched on 20 May 1998 by Daewoo at Okpo. |
 | | In September, the Greek government announced selection of the new Type 214 design (a combination of the features of the Israeli IKL 800 and the German-Italian Type 212 designs but without the air-independent propulsion system of the latter), with the first to be built at Kiel and three more at Eleusis Shipyard in Greece. |
 | | A disappointment for Germany's submarine yards came in the form of the January 1998 cancellation of Indonesia's purchase of five elderly, ex-German Navy Type 206 submarines, the first two of which had already been turned over to the Indonesian Navy in 1997 and were awaiting refits at HDW before proceeding to Indonesia. |
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