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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Astute comes to the big screen

AstuteTV viewers will be given a fascinating insight into the design and construction of the Astute class submarines this Sunday in a BBC2 documentary titled How to build . . . a nuclear submarine (9pm).

BAE Systems has for the past 18 months worked with a BBC camera crew at its Submarine Solutions site to film exclusive, behind the scenes footage of one of the world's most intriguing and covert engineering projects.

The hour-long documentary will take viewers on a journey of construction, starting with the design of what are the largest and most powerful attack submarines ever ordered by the Royal Navy, right up to the beginning of the first of class Astute's sea trials.

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