Riachuelo-class submarine vs Type 093 submarine

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Riachuelo-class submarine — licensed reference photograph

ASubmarines

Riachuelo-class submarine

Attack submarine

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AI-generated illustration · Not a photograph — Representative exterior of Type 093 submarine

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Type 093 submarine

Nuclear-powered attack submarine

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At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Riachuelo-class submarineNuclear

100 m

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Type 093 submarineType 093B

110 m

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Measured figures

Head to head

16 of 29 rows sourced on both sides

100mNuclear

110mType 093B

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70.62 m

Diesel-electric

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100 m

Nuclear

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Configuration

Details

Riachuelo-class submarine and Type 093 submarine configuration
Specification	Riachuelo-class submarine	Type 093 submarine
Range	—	Unlimited^[source]
Power	Diesel-electric: 4 × MTU 12V 396 SE84 diesels 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) each 1 × Jeumont-Schneider EPM Magtronic electric 3,909 hp (2,915 kW) 1 × Shaft Exide Hagen batteries Nuclear: 1 × Pressurized water reactor, 48 MW (64,000 hp), LEU 20% 1 × Nuclear turbo-electric engine 1 × Shaft^[source]	—
Name	Riachuelo class^[source]	Type 093^[source]
Builders	ICN^[source]	Bohai Shipyard , Huludao^[source]
Operators

Preceded by	Tupi class^[source]	Type 091^[source]

Cost	US$ 1 billion per unit (diesel-electric) US$ 3.8 billion per unit (nuclear)^[source]	—

Built	2010–present^[source]	—

In commission	2022–present^[source]	2006–present^[source]

Planned	5 (1 nuclear)^[source]	—

Building	1^[source]	5^[source]

Completed	4^[source]	9+^[source]

Active	3^[source]	Total 12 to 14: Type 093: 2 Type 093A: 4 Type 093B: 6-8^[source]

Type	Attack submarine^[source]	Nuclear-powered attack submarine^[source]

Test depth	400 m (1,300 ft)^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Naval Group SUBTICS combat management system Thales TSM 2233 Eledone hull and flank array passive sonar Thales Safare/S-Cube hull active sonar Safran Series 20 target identification and classification system^[source]	Type 359 radar Hull-mounted sonar Flank array sonar Passive intercept array sonar Towed array sonar (Type 093A)^[source]

Electronic warfare & decoys	Thales DR 3000/ITT AR 900 electronic support measures Naval Group Contralto-S decoy launchers CANTO anti-torpedo countermeasures^[source]	—

Armament	6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes : 8 × SM39 Exocet anti-ship missiles 18 × F21 heavy-weight torpedoes 30 × naval mines^[source]	6 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes Yu-3 , Yu-4 , Yu-6 torpedoes YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missile YJ-82 anti-ship cruise missile 24-cell vertical launching system (VLS) (Type 093B)^[source]