RN Submarines; Astute Class (Nuclear) 2010

[Pelican]

5th Astute class submarine HMS Anson due to commission in Barrow BAES Maritime this week.

[jbryce1437]

She is Sunderland's adopted ship, but I dont think there will ever be a port visit here.


Jim

[Pelican]

UK and Australia to discuss global security threats at HMS Anson commissioning

UK and Australian political leaders will discuss how to tackle shared global security threats as attack submarine HMS Anson is commissioned into the Royal Navy.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will attend Wednesday's ceremony at Barrow-In-Furness with Australian representative – the country's new Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles.

They will talk about common defence interests, including their AUKUS partnership and the Type 26 Hunter-class warship programme, developed amid security threats in the Indo-Pacific region.

Continues at - https://www.forces.net/sea-vessels/news ... missioning

[Pelican]

HMS Anson formally commissioned in BAES Maritime Barrow shipyard today.

The boat will leave the yard to begin sea trials in the next few months. Desperately needed as RN is currently down to just 5 SSNs (including HMS Triumph still to complete 3+ year refit).

See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 4392008704 - for photos.

[Pelican]

HMS Anson formally commissioned in BAES Maritime Barrow shipyard today.

The boat will leave the yard to begin sea trials in the next few months. Desperately needed as RN is currently down to just 5 SSNs (including HMS Triumph still to complete 3+ year refit).

See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 4392008704 - for photos.

The world’s most advanced hunter-killer submarine was today welcomed into the Royal Navy fleet at a ceremony in Barrow.

HMS Anson is £1.3bn of both naval stealth and striking power – able to gather vital intelligence, protect other Royal Navy vessels from threats above and below the waves and destroy enemy military infrastructure with pinpoint accuracy.

Continues, with full set of photos, at - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... navy-fleet

Also see - https://twitter.com/RoyalNavy/status/15 ... 1813384194

And - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aust ... aukus-pact

[Pelican]

ANSON

Yesterday saw the completion of a significant milestone in the Astute Programme. HMS Anson successfully and safely completed Power Range Testing of the NSRP. Great collaborative effort from Rolls-Royce Submarines, BAE Systems and MoD. A truly world class enterprise.

From - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/ur ... 365836801/

[Pelican]

The Royal Navy’s Astute class submarines: Part 1 – development and delivery


In the first of a series of articles focussing on the Astute class SSNs, we look at the programme’s history and how decisions made decades ago continue to impact today’s fleet.


Background
In the late 1960s the RN had decided that it would invest heavily in nuclear attack submarines with a force goal of 20 boats, seen as the new capital ships of the day and the most effective weapons to counter Soviet maritime threat. Propelled by a regular drumbeat of construction and development, by the early 1980s it had built the Dreadnought, Valiant, Churchill and Swiftsure classes. These were followed by the 7 Trafalgar class boats, arguably one of the best Cold War SSN designs, delivered to the fleet through the 1980s on time and with an average construction time of about 50 months.

In the late 1970s planners began to consider what would replace the Swiftsure class and began concept development for ‘SSN0Z’. In 1980, the project was suspended as the design teams needed to focus on the Vanguard class SSBNs but in 1984 work resumed on what was now called the follow-on SSN (FOSSN). By 1989 approval had been given for detailed design work to start on the new class which were now referred to as ‘SSN20’ and would have had names starting with ‘W’ (following the ‘V’ used by the Vanguard class). The W class were intended as a high-end boat that would far outclass the Soviet navy’s best (in a similar vein to the US Navy’s Seawolf class) and cost constraints were not a major factor. The end of the Cold War and the 1990 “Options for Change” defence review brought the SSN20 programme to a sudden halt as politicians scrambled to cut defence spending to reap the so-called “peace dividend”. This was the first of a series of decisions that combined to leave a problematic legacy for the RN submarine service.

Continues at - https://www.navylookout.com/the-royal-n ... -delivery/

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Navy Lookout

HMS Audacious finally sailed from Limassol after 39 days alongside.

Her Mediterranean patrol appears to have been plagued with mechanical issues.

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Navy Lookout

HMS Audacious finally sailed from Limassol after 39 days alongside.

Her Mediterranean patrol appears to have been plagued with mechanical issues.

UPDATED VERSION:

HMS Audacious sailed from Limassol today after 39 days alongside.

Conducting maintenance and crew rest period. Her long Mediterranean patrol extended due to HMS Triumph delayed return to service and lack of available SSNs.

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Covert Shores says next generation RN Attack submarines SSN(R) will have vertical launch tubes.

This would provide commonality with new US boats and option to buy US submarine-launched land-attack missiles, hypersonic or otherwise.

See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 0439269376

And - https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... nch-system