Delfin class submarine
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Delfin class submarine may refer to one of the following classes
of submarine
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Ship class
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of submarine
Submarine
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- Greek Delfin class submarine, a French-built class of two submarines built for the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1910; active in the First Balkan WarFirst Balkan WarThe First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...
; both boats seized by France during the Greek National Schism in 1916 and used during World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
; returned to Greece after the war and both stricken in 1920 - Soviet or Russian Delfin class submarine, an alternate name for the Delta IV class of nuclear, ballistic-missile submarines employed by the SovietSoviet NavyThe Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...
and Russian Navies