AFP - The Mexican navy has intercepted a home-made submarine with a suspected drug shipment in Pacific waters, 15 kilometers (10 miles) off the coast of Oaxaca state.Los Angeles Times - Submarine, homemade and cocaine-laden, is seized off Mexico.

Defense Technology International - The first of two first of two Class 209PN air-independent propulsion/diesel-electric submarines for the Portuguese navy was launched at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Germany's lead submarine building yard in Kiel on July 15.