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Originally Posted by Karle94
Collided with a French sub etc...
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Nah, that was one of our missile boats. HMS Vanguard.
Astute has had lots of problems with her though, and if I were in the Andy I'd come to the same conclusion that she's a marked boat. A shame really, a friend of mine has a son on board her, although IIRC when I spoke to her last, she said she'd heard from him, she was expecting him to be at sea but Astute was back at dock because "they'd broken the boat" so, there is that.
Hopefully Ambush will be a bit more fortunate. I guess the whole debacle with the designing and construction of Astute didn't help her much. In theory though, the Astute class is quite capable, and once the initial problems are ironed out I'm sure they'll do sterling service.