The Royal Navy’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines are a study in contrasts: technologically brilliant yet ...

HMS Anson, the Royal Navy’s latest Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine, has successfully completed her first trim dive—a ...

The fifth Astute-class attack submarine was launched in late April at the BAE Systems site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, the company announced earlier this month. The vessel emerged from the ...

May 21, 2007 A hulking 100 metres long, the Astute is the largest, most heavily armed, stealthiest and most sophisticated submarine ever built for the Royal Navy. The massive nuclear sub, which ...

Thales Underwater Systems Sonar 2076. Atlas Hydrographic echosounder, the DESO 25, is capable of precise depth measurements down to 10,000m. Rolls Royce PWR 2 pressurized water reactor. 2 Alsthom ...

Once completed the Royal Navy’s HMS Anson will be one of the most sophisticated underwater vehicles ever built. Displacing 7,800 tonnes, the ninety-seven-meter long hunter-killer submarine is ...

Stealth submarines can spend a very long time underwater nearly anywhere on Earth, and the U.K.'s Astute-Class subs can take it to the next level.

With the end of the Cold War the Royal Navy changed its submarine-employment strategy to one with an emphasis on anti-submarine warefare to direct support of surface forces.

The sonar system on Astute-class submarines can detect ships up to 3,000 nautical miles away ... launching them from underwater. The submarine’s nuclear reactor has a 25-year life.

HMS Anson, the fifth Astute class submarine, which BAE Systems has designed and built for the Royal Navy, has departed the… Tuesday, June 24, 2025.