U.K. to Launch New 'Super Submarine'
 

The Royal Navy has a new hunter-killer submarine in its arsenal of weapons. Its name: HMS Ambush.
The submarine has the ability to send guided missiles at the enemy more than 1,000 miles away, and it will never need refueling and can detect ships approaching at 3,000 nautical miles away.This titan of the sea is able to make oxygen and fresh water from ¬seawater, to keep the 98 crew members alive in time of crisis, the U.K. DailyMail reports.Ambush replaces smaller vessels such as the Swiftsure and Trafalgar subs, but despite its size is much quieter, making it virtually undetectable to enemy vessels.The U.K. Daily Mail reports that the vessel is more complex than U.S. space shuttles and is able to circumnavigate the globe without surfacing.Ambush is 291 feet long, as wide as four double-decker buses and 12 stories high. HMS Ambush will carry 38 missiles as ammunition. Its nuclear-powered engine will propel the submarine through the water at more than 20 knots, allowing it to travel 500 miles a day, U.K. DailyMail reports.This super sub cost $1.2 billion dollars and will be launched at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, U.K. on Thursday.

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Note: Published December 14, 2010


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there has been a lot of bad luck with the royal navy these days....

This might change the situation ....

Try not to run her aground too... :nope:

Great. Now we just need another war to justify the expense. That shouldn't take long; over the last three centuries we've averaged one war every three years.

There are some good testing areas around North Korea.:hmmm:

Bad idea the Yellow sea is about as shallow as the waters off the Island of Skye. :haha:

Wouldn't be very good for the Royal Navy to have her run aground there and gets captured.

... actually I think that is how Oberon and I will start chapter one of our upcoming techno thriller! :O:

I have it thought out already!
the introduction:

Kim Jiong Il: We the glorious North Korean people have managed to capture the capitalist "Paper Tigers". The so called British super sub has been captured my the working class!
We have ambushed the HMS Ambush, and captured 98 capitalist pigs.
We will be executing them in three days......

Can the super-agents TLAM Strike and Oberon beat Kim Jiong Il and his army? Will they be able to save the crew in time?

"I am not field personnel, I am only an analyst." :O:

Although I do know our book needs an underwater battle between Navy SEALs and North Korean frogmen in the shadow of a the sunken British Sub while the the USS Texas and a couple Chinese Shang class SSNs face off for who will recover the Ambush and her trapped crew. :ping:

I think she is to be launched somewhere where there is deep enough, where there are no stones to encounter, :yep:

Hello,
hmm they just scrapped or at least decommissioned the "Ark Royal" because of insufficient funds, and now .. that ?

OK the project was launched some 10+ years ago, so maybe it's all in the planned budget. I just wonder why they accuse the old government to have wasted 20 millions on poor and jobless people in England, and now launch a 2+ billion pounds sub with 1.2 billions over the estimation ? This sure makes sense economy-wise.

I like subs and technology, but just to have another toy to get into the act with the superpowers ? Uh, let's say China.

"Less noise than a baby dolphin", from the hull's shape i really doubt that.
It is a big sub (not a bit too big for a "hunter-killer"?) that will have to avoid shallow waters (so what is the small minisub for?), it will have difficulties to hide, it has no fluid a-drag system and the size will make the wake of the submerged ship obvious for satellites looking for such patterns. 20 knots ? I hope they just said it to cover up its real speed.
It uses an older reactor but at least it is able to produce drinking water from the sea, and its own oxygen.
So the english Navy has finally found out how electrolysis works :O:
This is really new technology huh ?

/rant :03::DL

Nah i like it, and i wish her more luck than the HMS Astute :-?

Greetings,
Catfish

Lets hope this one works first time, unlike here sister ship; HMS Astute:damn:

it better be. We built the shuttle in the early 70's :hmmm:

They will need to be very 'astute' if they hope to succeed.

Most defence journos don't know jack and write stupid things like "more advanced that the space shuttle"...

Oh well..