BlueWhale is a large uncrewed underwater vehicle 10.9 meters long, with a diameter of 1.12 meters and weighing 5.5 tons.
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By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Netanyahu is not suspected of any wrongdoing in the case and has been cleared by the relevant authorities.
The new torpedo system has improved accuracy and can be used against targets above and below water dozens of kilometers away.
Attorney Shahar Ben-Meir petitioned Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to require Netanyahu to stop employing Molcho.
The storm brewing in Israel over its purchase of 3 German submarines is not about the subs at all. It is about the obsession to find a scandal – at any price – that will depose Netanyahu.
The AG and Prosecutor have decided there's nothing criminal to investigate against Netanyahu from Channel 10's report.
Channel 10's latest accusations against PM Netanyahu have created a political storm.
Head of the Israeli Navy Ram Rothberg attends a memorial ceremony held at sea by Israeli sailors from the navy's newest submarine, the INS Tanin. The ceremony was in memory of the personnel of the INS Dakar, which sank 435 km. off the coast of Haifa in 1968. September 21, 2014.
The Israeli navy is about to receive its fourth submarine and the first of three nuclear-capable subs purchased from Germany.
The INS Tanin cost approximately $500 million, one-third of which was funded by the German Government, and is slated to arrive in Israel next year.
Israel and Germany signed a contract purchasing the Israeli Navy's sixth submarine Wednesday. It is an SSK Dolphin Class submarine. Last year the newspaper The Welt am Sonntag reported that German chancellor Angela Merkel conditioned the sale of the Dolphin on Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, which Netanyahu obliged.
The Dolphin-class submarine will be Israel's sixth purchased from Germany.
