The Astute-class submarine is a nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) designed and built by BAE Systems for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. These submarines are among the most advanced of their kind ...

Astute-Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Silent Predators. ... Each of the submarines costs a reported £1.6 billion to build, but the capabilities offered are essentially priceless.

Seven Astute submarines were planned. Five have already been built and commissioned. The Astute is the culmination of a program that began in the late 1980s, when the Soviet threat was still front ...

April 19 (UPI) --BAE Systems in Britain has received a $1.77 billion Ministry of Defense contract to build a sixth Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine for the Royal Navy.The Agamemnon will be ...

BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The latest Astute class submarine to be built by BAE Systems, HMS Anson, was officially commissioned into the Royal Navy during a ceremony at BAE ...

In total, seven Astute submarines are expected to be built, culminating a project that began in 1986 when the British Ministry of Defense began considering replacements for Swiftsure- and ...

Astute Combat Management System (ACMS) receives data from the sonars and other sensors and, through advanced algorithms and data handling, displays real time images on the command consoles.

A BARROW built Royal Navy hunter-killer submarine is set to enter a period of maintenance in order to undergo a mid-life revamp.

May 21, 2007 A hulking 100 metres long, the Astute is the largest, most heavily armed, stealthiest and most sophisticated submarine ever built for the Royal Navy. The massive nuclear sub, which ...

The nuclear-powered Astute class is 97m long, weighs 7,800 tons, is coated in 39,000 sonar masking acoustic tiles and doesn't need refueling throughout its expected 25 year service life.

Weighing in at 7,400 tonnes and at 97 metres long, Artful is the third of 7 highly complex Astute Class submarines being built for the Royal Navy. Two of the submarines, ...

HMS Anson, the fifth Astute class submarine, which BAE Systems has designed and built for the Royal Navy, has departed the company's shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and headed out to open ...