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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Astute’s trials draw to a close as new boat prepares for front-line duties

HMS Astute |Britain's first new hunter-killer submarine in a generation is preparing to take her place on the front line as her final trials come to an end in the USA.

Faslane-based HMS Astute has been carrying out warm water and other trials in the Bahamas and off the Eastern Seaboard as she gears up for her first operational patrol towards the end of this year.

It’s the second stint of trials in the region for the first of seven nuclear-powered boats in the Astute-class; over the winter of 2011-12 the submarine was tested extensively in these same waters, including sparring with the USS New Mexico – a near-counterpart in the US Navy’s Silent Service.

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