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Friday, November 16, 2012

HMS Astute: nuclear submarine beset by design problems and construction failures

HMS Astute |HMS Astute, the first of seven new submarines to be built at a cost of £9.75bn, is reportedly too slow, is subject to leaking and is rusty in parts.

The boat, lauded as the most sophisticated Navy submarine, cannot race to emergencies or away from an attack – considered an essential requirement – because it is unable to reach its intended top speed.

It also cannot maintain the more than 30 knot speed with the Navy new aircraft carriers, which the submarines protect, because of what sources described to The Guardian as a "V8 engine with a Morris Minor gearbox".

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