Astute ?

[Bellman]

Of course you are - that's why you will watch a film on BBC2 Sun 2100 called 'How to build a nuclear submarine.'
See how the UK spent a £1 billion on her new 'Astute.'

So on a day of F1, 'World Cup' and barbies dont forget to set your recorder -or pick it up later on iPlayer.

[TLAM Strike]

See how the UK spent a £1 billion on her new 'Astute.'

Wow quite a bargain! A Virgina class SSN costs nearly 3 billion USD... :(

Seawolf class SSN 4.4 billion...... :o

Cost of Russian Yasen (Severodvinsk) class SSN about 1 Billion :up:

Cost of Kilo class SSK 300 million :rock: (http://wapedia.mobi/en/Russian_submarine_Severodvinsk)

[Bellman]

Extract from Naval Shipbuilding NorthWest England.

Minister Mr. Bob Ainsworth, on 29 Mar 2010 said in Hansard Column 645W:-

A fully modular build system is being adopted in the build of HMS Astute, HMS Ambush and HMS Artful by BAE SYSTEMS .
The Submarines have a cost of £3,492 million* By comparison American Virginia class submarines cost over $2.4 billion each.
(*source: Parliamentary answer on 17th May 2006).

[clive bradbury]

Looking forward to this - it is a three-part series - so should be pretty in-depth (no pun intended!).

[Kaleun]

Looking at the BBC2 website, it looks like the other 2 parts are not related to submarines.

The series is called "How to build...."

Part 1/ Nuclear submarine
Part 2/ Jumbo Jet engine
Part 3/ Britains secret engineers

Could be interesting, just not Sub-related!

Kaleun

[caymanlee]

interesting, anyone recorded it yet? anyone would share a link to it, that would be very nice

[Bellman]

There you go :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00syt1w/How_to_Build..._A_Nuclear_Submarine/

[caymanlee]

There you go :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00syt1w/How_to_Build..._A_Nuclear_Submarine/


thanks, but this link available play in UK only.

[Fish]

Extract from Naval Shipbuilding NorthWest England.

Minister Mr. Bob Ainsworth, on 29 Mar 2010 said in Hansard Column 645W:-

A fully modular build system is being adopted in the build of HMS Astute, HMS Ambush and HMS Artful by BAE SYSTEMS .
The Submarines have a cost of £3,492 million* By comparison American Virginia class submarines cost over $2.4 billion each.
(*source: Parliamentary answer on 17th May 2006).

Is that a guaranteed price Bellman? :cool:

In such cases the price easily doubles during building.

[Frying Tiger]

Is that a guaranteed price Bellman? :cool:

In such cases the price easily doubles during building.

Am I doing the math wrong? That comes out to over 5 billion US dollars with the current exchange rate, (remember, a US billion is 1000 million) making the Virginia cheaper.

[Bellman]

Fish - Politicians = guarantees :arrgh!:
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin.

FT. - 3 UK subs total £3492 million or appx £1164 milliion ea.
Current ROE £1 = $1.52 appx.
Astute $1769 million ea.
cf. Virginia $2400 million ea. (on your terms)

[Frying Tiger]

Fish - Politicians = guarantees :arrgh!:
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin.

FT. - 3 UK subs total £3492 million or appx £1164 milliion ea.
Current ROE £1 = $1.52 appx.
Astute $1769 million ea.
cf. Virginia $2400 million ea. (on your terms)

Ah, that was my error. Thought the price was per ship.
Thanks.

[Hawk66]

Is there any media archive for that? Would also like to watch it^^.