The Israeli Navy announces that its new submarine, which is due to be delivered next year, will be named the INS Dragon.
The Dragon (or Drakon in Hebrew) is meant to be a compromise between the military’s initial choice of naming the vessel the Dakar — after another Israeli submarine that sank in 1968 with its crew — and the families of the fallen sailors from the original Dakar who protested the proposal to recycle the name.
In its announcement, the Navy noted that, in Hebrew, Drakon contains the letters that make up Dakar.
Last year, the Navy said it would be reserving the name Dakar for the overall class of its new submarines.
“Submariners are preserving our security stability day and night, with unflappable professionalism, wisdom, dedication and consideration,” Navy chief Maj. Gen. Eli Sharvit says during the announcement ceremony.
— Judah Ari Gross
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