Royal Navy's biggest and strongest attack submarine launches

8 Jun 07: The Royal Navy's newest super-submarine, Astute, was launched on Friday 8 June 2007, by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Astute is the first nuclear submarine to be launched in the UK for almost a decade. She has been built in the UK using the latest and most advanced naval engineering techniques. Construction has been described as more complex than that of the space shuttle.

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[ZeroBShere]

Oso1g...mate..im in the British Army yeah....was with 3 para for nearly 10 years but have transferred to 29 Commando..and having seen some of you SEAL lads breathing out of their arses trying to keep up the pace on Dartmoor....i think you need to pen a letter the US Defence and suggest a better training regime is put in place. By the way im proud to work alongside the US..its just berks like u who let them down.

[ZeroBShere]

jesus kid you dont half go on..if only you had irrefutible proof...oh well..we'll let Britiains combat records compared to yours do the taling for us..ta ta.....and grow up. im proud to fight alongside US forces (im British Army)..but kids like u are..as one US marine said "an embaressment"

[95predator]

@BugattiVeyron135 the Italian Navy also uses it being one of our closest allies, but they don't know about the tech.

[flemit11]

No they don't

[14CPO]

you have to question the sanity of sombody willing to actually get in that thing and live in it. I'm begginning to wonder who is really sane in this world. haven't people from the royal navy who served in the subs now got ill health related to nucelar subs

[cavalley1]

yes blacklions ,research american submarine VIRGINA CLASS its americas most stealthy sub to date ,better technology than german subs

[lfcdave8]

not everything is right! some boats use a high frequency active sonar which is impossible to localise! but its range is not very long and its mostly used for terrain detection

[keirfree]

blacklions714 Oh Yes!!,, there is , No one uses active Sonar, today, so days of the Ping is over except for internet use, ;) subs look for, black holes to hide behind Not in, read up on ,, sound refraction

[BugattiVeyron135]

Yes there is. The new German U212A class has metal that absorbs all sonar waves. However, the Germans are not selling it to anyone but the German Navy.

[blacklions714]

Is there a way to supress sound waves from bouncing back? What I mean to say, if there was a way to suppress sonar? could a foam padding or maybe a type of device that can cancel out sound waves. I just now gave myself an idea, typing this, I will research how to improve and maintain the submarines ability to remain stealthily. Hopefully Britain's economy improves to help gain more money then America, to achieve greater and more superior units. I can't stand my country here in America right now.

[fayik123]

i was surprised to learn that many people don't know that the us navy grows their own vegetables using hydroponic/aeroponics on-board theie submarines under artificial lights. to provide fresh veg. Does the royal navy do this as well?