Countries Previously Operating Submarines
- Albania - all retired 1998
- Austria-Hungary (list)
- Bulgaria - all retired by 2011
- Cuba - all three Foxtrot class submarines retired
- Denmark - retired after 2003
- Estonia (Kalev and Lembit) - decommissioned 1955 in the Soviet Navy
- Finland - last subs decommissioned after World War II
- Latvia - all submarines taken over by Soviet Union in 1940
- Libya - all Foxtrot class submarines retired (1 non-commissioned remains docked)
- Romania (Delfinul submarine, under repair)
- Serbia and Montenegro (ex-Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
- Soviet Union (list) (prior to 1991 collapse, many now operated by legal successor Russia)
- Syria - all Romeo class submarines retired around 1992
- Thailand (Matchanu-class during the Franco-Thai War - built in Japan 1938 and retired 1951)
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