In 1999 British submarines singlehandedly not assigned to task forces fired tomahawk cruise missiles inot kosovo, in 2003 the same happend in iraq.
British submarines are mainly in service to protect the fragile fleet and also to be sent out ahead of the main fleet should war break out and a vessel has to get there within a matter of a few days.
Afterall a nuclear submarine can hit +33 knots all the way to say the falklands and be ahead of the main battle group by a week or two, and thus being in the area to stop further landings and deny enamies that viatl bit of time to get ready.
The british only have the defence side of things worked out, our navy is not large enough to support an attack role even though it can do this i dont think attack is what we realy need from our navy seeing as we get along with 90% of the world.
This is why the British SSN's are built without VLS tubes, they are designed to defend by attacking, however the americans policy of strike first is clearly shown by the fact they have got 4 ohio SSGN's and VLS capible submarines.
America has the navy to attack we dont.
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