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Monday, May 09, 2011

HMS Astute back in Faslane with potentially lethal ‘technical issue’

Astute class submarineToday’s edition of The Sunday Herald is carrying an exclusive by Environment Editor, Rob Edwards, arguably its most valuable journalistic asset.

HMS Astute, the first of the planned fleet of seven of her class of nuclear powered but conventionally armed submarines, left Faslane last Wednesday (4th May 2011) for another set of sea trials.

She was ‘taken to Faslane’ in short order, coming in on Friday while the rest of us were glued to the election count. According to Edwards, the Ministry of Defence narrative briefly mentioned ‘a technical issue with hydraulics…that needs to be fixed to make sure it can dive properly’.

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