Good reporting Kapitan, as always your love for submarines stands out.
You should write a book with diagrams and pictures ... take your time for it will always be of interest to other arm chair sailors.
As for the mention of the Virginia SSN class and the British SSN Astute class I found this note near the end:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astute-class_submarine
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In 2012, during the joint exercise Fellowship, Astute performed simulated battles with the latest United States Navy Virginia-class submarine, USS New Mexico. It was reported that the Americans were "taken aback" by Astute's capabilities. Royal Navy Commander Iain Breckenridge was quoted, "Our sonar is fantastic and I have never before experienced holding a submarine at the range we were holding USS New Mexico. The Americans were utterly taken aback, blown away with what they were seeing"
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