Our Best Look Yet At Britain’s New Dreadnought Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Design
A detailed model has provided what’s likely our best idea of how the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Dreadnought class nuclear ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN14 天
UK’s nuclear submarine surprises Russian spy vessel; orders it to leave British waters
U.K. Defense Secretary revealed that the same Russian surveillance ship, Yantar, has been again spotted in the British waters ...
Former British defense secretary calls Royal Navy’s submarine name change ‘woke nonsense’
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...
Rolls-Royce Gets $11.1 Billion Contract to Supply Nuclear Reactors for U.K. Submarines
Rolls-Royce will manufacture nuclear reactors to power new U.K. submarines under a contract valued approximately at $11.1 ...
Shephard Media10 天
Last Astute-class submarine renamed HMS Achilles
in memory of the decisive British victory in the Hundred Years’ War between the UK and France. Five previous RN vessels have carried the name HMS Achilles. In announcing the shift away from the name ...
SEAPOWER25 天
SECNAV Del Toro Names Future Columbia-class Submarine SSBN 828
WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced Jan. 13 that the newest Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine will be named the future USS Groton (SSBN 828). The announcement was ...
The National Interest10 天
The Royal Navy’s Final Astute-class Submarine Is Being Renamed—And Britons Aren’t Happy
There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now ...
The National Interest13 天
Russia’s Alfa-class Submarine Nightmare
One notable instance of the submarine’s reactor being a problem from the depths of Hades involved the case of K-123 in 1982. At that time, the Alfa-class was on patrol in the Barents Sea when ...