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INS Tanin (2012)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli submarine”. Today it says “israeli dolphin 2-class submarine of shayetet 7 flotilla”.
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The opening as it read in 2020

INS Tanin is an Israeli Dolphin 2-class submarine . The name means "crocodile" in modern Hebrew , but can also mean the sea monster " tannin ". The submarine was launched in February 2012 in Kiel, Germany , and was delivered to the Israeli port city Haifa later that year, and entered service in 2014.

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli submarine”. Today it says “israeli dolphin 2-class submarine of shayetet 7 flotilla”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

israeli submarine

Now

israeli dolphin 2-class submarine of shayetet 7 flotilla

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