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For whatever its worth I expect to see them smigning deal with Sweden or Germany. As was said, Japan is very hesitent to license building of it sm ilitary equipment outside Japan, and it is expensive. The German and Swedish designs are proven and still amongst the most silent of boats in operation.



I could also imagine that Israel serves as an example of how to adapt the German boats with their European equipment to Israel's own and American-cannibalised tech demands.



Plenty of the Canadian coastline is such that you do not want to operate too big boats there, I assume. But thats maybe just the layman in me.