Barrow in furness produces some world class machinery again. If you go to Barrow you would never realize how utterly brilliant the residents of barrow are.
Fantastic boat and good to know she will work brilliantly in concert with our most important ally the US Navy!Wow what a combo and enough to flatten any threat from anywhere,anytime. We need more of these boats right now.
Not with the chippy attitude that many Indians have to the UK, but maybe one day if old grievances are put to bed. We are stronger together and the real enemy is communist China. Thanks for your support.
Then we go and name our CVs as Queen Lizzie and Prince of the Welsh. At least the four Dreadnought subs will have cool names, unless they opt for something daft like Daphne, Donald, Douglas and Doughnut.
I live beside Faslane 🏴 & whilst I’ve seen these a hundred times, I still smile & jump in the car to get closer for a photo. They do make you proud to be 🇬🇧.
God bless her? Its a machine. If you knew jesus or the bible you would know its a weapon to kill, when jesus talks about, if someone slaps your right cheek, give them the left also, Luke 6 v29, In other words don't retaliate. God's love is the only way. Idolising is a sin.
@nuff said you're pretty stupid not gonna lie why would we need aircraft carriers to defend our island? We have massive ones now anyway which do need more ships But you're forgetting NATO is protecting us as well and our troops are some of the best trained in the world
nuff said you’ve got to be uninformed if you haven’t read the news on how the MOD will ramp up defence spending in the years to come,from 2.0% to 2.5%.May not seem like a lot but we’re talking about a potential budget of £75-85 billion budget here.
There was a show on the BBC of a young apprentice electrician wiring up the intercom in the captains cabin of this boat. A small bit of wiring but very necessary. The whole show was fascinating.
That single boat can cause a lot of damage only the US boats are comparable, no other countries come near. The UK is the only country that has shared nuclear research program with the US. These really are the battleships of the 21st century. Carriers project power but these boats can destroy entire fleets. The UK's fleet may be small but it packs hell of a punch for its size. The next generation AUKUS attack boats capabilities will be terrifying.
My first link to an British carrier was the HMS Eagle (1951 build) and the jets appeared small. I wish I had a camera but alas...I still have contact with John to this time. The Swedish sub with a sterling engine had virtually sank and American carrier and the sub could not be located. :)
I like the guy with the torch opening the tube door to make sure the torpedo had "left the building." Must make sense to check rather than believe the panel lights. Someones arse would have been in a sling if it was still there. I imagine the navy RSM equivalent has the same function and inbuilt fear factor.
Just wondering what the life span of such a sub might be. Is it a case of dry dock & a complete refit or does the sub just reach a point where it's simply too old?
Yes, HMS Ambush is indeed the sub that both hit the bottom - in public - and while submerged, hit a tanker . Only cost a billion or so to sort it. Dont worry, the Captains knighthood is still safe.
"Repairs cost £2.1 million and the commander, who was training a group of students at the time, was sentenced to forfeiting a year of seniority for negligently hazarding the vessel."
Can you sell some to Australia?.... The French subs on order may not be available for decades....We may have to recommission some of our Oberon class until problems with the Collins class are sorted.
Jack......this is off the Isle of Skye which is North West Scotland, there’s a testing facility located in the area which allows the Royal Navy to test there gadgets. 😉
I have NEVER understood why we send our boys and girls into harms way when we have these boats with cruise missiles or nuclear weapons. We take out our opponent's and they don't know what hit them.
Good idea, tell the world how many problems they have had with faults etc. Remind of the Falklands, TV telling everyone exactly what, where and when things are happening..
@Donald Sinclair good shout out, might stick that on this evening with a Chinese (as its Friday). Hunter Killer is a somewhat good movie about submarines.
Never will understand why wearing blue uniforms that can't be detected in the blue ocean is a good idea. Sounds like the astronaut unis for the Challenger disaster. Changes were made.
I might be naïve but surely this is a pretty long breaking in period for a boat. I understand the complexity but lots of stuff is tricky in these times. So, I hope BAE systems have paid a penalty for such shoddy work. But I’m guessing no. The reason is almost certainly corruption. We have to use British Companies to build war ships so, BAE are in essence a monopoly and it is not wonder why the DOD is so wildly over planned budget each and every year.
I still don't get who the UK thinks they'll need to fight to buy such advanced systems. It's amazing such a small country can spend billions of pounds on ships and missiles of all types. I've seen a frigate escort an oil tanker in the Persian gulf, but if anything goes hot, nothing wouldn't be sunk in such a small area with supersonic and potentially hypersonic anti-ship missiles, so it's curious indeed.
@@MyScotty7, and what deterrent is there, when you are fighting Klingons (72 mansions with 72 virgins...which still sounds like hell to me, having to hear 72 times, "It has to go in WHERE!?") that want to die in glorious battle. Know you're enemy. MAD doesn't work, if one side doesn't care about their population or themselves. That's includes China. One general said publicly, if they lost 500 million people that was a price they were willing to pay. Deter that.
@786qad.........’we’?? I’m curious to whom ‘we’ in your bold statement. I’ve never heard anyone in any branch of the military call Submarines ‘sitting ducks’ especially SSNs.
@@j.4354 Not true and released documentation from the time proves you wrong. You were less lightly to be killed as a British Soldier then any other major nation.
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