Tourist Photo Reveals Cuban Navy’s Secret Submarine

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) image analysis showing a Cuban submarine in Havana. This is part of a larger panorama taken by a tourist. Sahureka/H I Sutton


Forbes: New Photo Reveals Cuban Navy’s Secret Submarine

When a tourist took a photo of Havana’s picturesque harbor, they didn’t realize the intelligence value of what they were capturing. Lurking in the shadows near a pier, and behind a palm tree, was one of the world’s least photographed submarines.

It’s the Cuban Navy’s Delfin Class, and this is by far the clearest image of it to date. It is also evidence that it has been active in the Florida Straits.

There are few areas of military hardware which are as shrouded in secrecy as submarines. And even among submarines some are better guarded than others. One of the least known is Cuba’s Delfin Class submarine. Defense analysts only know of one other publicly shared photo, and that was long ago and poor quality. This new image gives us a much clearer view of the details. I will need to update the profile in my world submarines recognition book.

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WNU Editor: It is a really small submarine.

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