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For the first time British cameras have been given access on board a hunter-killer submarine on live operations.
Submarine: Life Under the Sea goes on board HMS Trenchant, a nuclear submarine, on its four month tour of duty to the mid-Atlantic to uncover the reality of life at sea.
Living in extremely close quarters the crew are tasked with helping guard the UK’s Trident missiles and keeping British waters safe.

See - https://www.channel5.com/show/submarine ... j3Q-4U_ZDU
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Pelican wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:38 pm Royal Navy Family and People Support

Join the Crew of a Nuclear Submarine
For the first time British cameras have been given access on board a hunter-killer submarine on live operations.
Submarine: Life Under the Sea goes on board HMS Trenchant, a nuclear submarine, on its four month tour of duty to the mid-Atlantic to uncover the reality of life at sea.
Living in extremely close quarters the crew are tasked with helping guard the UK’s Trident missiles and keeping British waters safe.

See - https://www.channel5.com/show/submarine ... j3Q-4U_ZDU
See - https://twitter.com/i/status/1435534622746714112
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EXCLUSIVE: Truth behind life on submarines fighting top secret Cold War against Russians

TV drama Vigil starring Suranne Jones has nothing on the reality of what happens on board Britain's submarines. Here Ali Kefford, a naval journalist specialising in submarines, details her plethora of tales of the deep
EXCLUSIVE: Truth behind life on submarines fighting top secret Cold War against Russians
The sight of actress Suranne Jones dangling on a wire over a mighty submarine in the TV drama Vigil may well have made your stomach churn.
But it’s got nothing on what actually happens in a classified world where there are only two types of vessel – submarines and targets.
As a journalist specialising in submarine warfare, I’ve joined six Royal Navy subs at sea, including a nuclear deterrent boat like the one on which Vigil is set.
I’ve also gained a plethora of tales of the deep – and once hung off HMS Talent by one arm.
Our boats are fighting a top secret Cold War against the Russians.
Continues at - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/t ... g-24949202
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will be watching that rest assured David ;)
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ivorthediver wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:01 pm will be watching that rest assured David ;)
'Hands on hips' has been criticized Ivor.
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Royal Navy nuclear submarine technology to be shared with Australia


A new trilateral security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US (AUKUS) was announced yesterday. As part of this new alliance, the US and UK will assist with the construction of up to 8 nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs). In this brief commentary, we outline some of the implications.

The new alliance has been largely driven by the increasing threat from China. Australian relations with the Chinese have deteriorated considerably and the rapidly expanding PLA Navy poses a growing threat that would most effectively be countered by a powerful submarine force. With a shared language, history and value system, AUKUS makes sense and is an extension of the existing ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing agreement. At this time there is not, however, an equivalent of NATO’s Article Five that specifically commits each nation to send military forces to protect the other in event of an attack by a third party. Should China continue its rate of military expansion it is possible that it may drive Indo-Pacific nations to form a more committed NATO-like alliance with AUKUS at its heart.

AUKUS is another step for post-Brexit Britain, becoming more closely aligned with its traditional allies in the Anglosphere as it distances from former EU partners. There is also the potential of economic benefits for the UK at the expense of the French, at a time when Macron is increasingly unloved by London.

The Royal Australian Navy needs to replace its conventional Collins class (SSK) boats and under its SEA 1000 project, in April 2016 signed a A$50 billion contract with the French Naval Group to build up to 12 Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A boats. Any submarine construction project needs strong political and financial backing as well as talented managers and leaders to deliver successfully. It is one of the most difficult engineering challenges that any nation can undertake, given the complexities of design and the skills and infrastructure needed to build maintain and operate them. Even Spain, with a history of submarine building has struggled to deliver their S-80 AIP SSK and despite the UK’s strong naval heritage, encountered major problems and delays to the Astute class.

The “Attack class” project was always going to be problematic compared to those counties with existing domestic submarine programmes. Effectively the Attack programme added 3 extra hurdles: Converting the French Barracuda-class SSN design to a conventionally powered version, replacing the French combat systems with a new US/Aus designed option and a major technology and skills transfer from France to Australia. HMAS attack was supposed to have been laid down in 2023 and be the first of 3 batches of boats built over a 25-year period. The estimated cost of the programme had risen to A$80bn by 2020 and tension began to increase with Naval Group as the true scale of the task emerged.

The decision to build SSNs has not eliminated these issues, and in fact the cost and complexity of the task is magnified by the need to acquire supporting nuclear infrastructure. Australia has no civil nuclear industry to draw upon (nuclear power was formally banned by legislation in 1998). Historically it has adopted an anti-nuclear stance that included preventing warships from entering port if they were either nuclear powered or possibly carrying nuclear weapons.

Continues at - https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy- ... australia/
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Well that got the predictable response from China ......good news I think
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Design work begins on successor to Astute-class submarines in £170m deal

The first work has begun on a successor to the Submarine Service’s cutting-edge hunter-killer force – even before all the current boats have been delivered to the Navy.
BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce have each been given £85m to start thinking about the design and capabilities of a new class of submarine which will eventually take over from the Astute class.

Over the next three years 350 designers, engineers and shipwrights – 250 in the North-West and 100 in the Midlands – will carry out design and concept work, work which will help Whitehall determine how it replaces the Astutes when they begin to reach the end of their active careers.

Four boats are currently in service – the newest, HMS Audacious, is formally commissioned next week – No.5 (HMS Anson) is undergoing final trials and testing in Barrow, where the last two boats (HMS Agamemnon and Agincourt) are being completed.

All seven Astutes will be in service by 2026 and each is expected to serve for at least a quarter of century – taking the class into the second half of the 21st Century.

HMS Astute herself has already been in service over a decade and given the complexities of building nuclear submarines – plus the pace of technological change below the waves (the Royal Navy is already investing in its first crewless submersibles) – preparing for the next generation of boats needs to start now.

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The Times is reporting that once Australia has established nuclear submarine infrastructure (minor detail), RN Astute class submarines could undergo deep maintenance there so they can avoid long transits to Indo-Pacific.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brit ... -rw6mz0p03
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