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Thailand in Market for German Subs

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Apr 05, 2011
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At the front of the Thai navy museum at Samut Prakan, some 20 miles downriver from central Bangkok, the conning tower and fore deck of a submarine appears to break through the manicured lawns and move purposefully towards the busy Sukhumvit Road.

The blue-grey steel structure is all that remains of His Thai Majesty's Ship Matchanu and Thailand's submarin…

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