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Monday, November 03, 2008

HMS Astute to enter service late

The first of a new generation of nuclear submarines being built by BAE Systems, the defence contractor, is likely to miss its in-service date due to continuing problems with the £3.8bn programme, the government has admitted.

It is expected that the handover of HMS Astute, the first of the Royal Navy's new nuclear hunter-killer submarines, will now be several months late.

BAE and the Ministry of Defence launched a review of the programme a few weeks ago but at the time insisted they were still confident that Astute would enter service in 2009.

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