The boats are being constructed by BAE Systems Submarines at Barrow-in-Furness and the first of class, HMS Astute ... That particular nuclear reactor, which powers the submarines and has a ...

The HMS Astute arrived in Gibraltar last week ... protest against the arrival of these submarines that sail with a nuclear reactor and put the Strait of Gibraltar and those who live in this ...

As the Royal Navy moves to a single class of nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSN), the Astute class ... the on-board nuclear reactor would be uneconomical. Contents HMS Triumph (S93) sailed ...

Their state-of-the-art technology, powered by a Rolls-Royce PWR2 nuclear reactor, means they never ... The first five submarines in the class, HMS Astute, HMS Ambush, HMS Artful, HMS Audacious ...

An Astute-class submarine has entered ... continued to point out that "a large part of the nuclear reactors exceed their design life age”. HMS Audacious is among the most sophisticated ...

but will now follow HMS Agamemnon's lead, being named after a warrior from the Iliad. The UK Royal Navy (RN) has changed the name of the final Astute class nuclear-powered submarines to HMS Achilles.