The Astute-Class submarine harkens the Royal Navy (RN) back to when it was the world's envy. Some claim the Astute-class submarines are even better than the US Virginia-class subs.

The Key Data Points: The Astute-class submarine is Britain’s cutting-edge replacement for the aging Trafalgar-class attack subs. Developed by BAE Systems and featuring world-class technology ...

The submarine was due to be named HMS Agincourt, 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 ...

The Astute-class was the first nuclear submarine in the world to be designed in a 3D computer-aided environment. These submarines may not be as well known as their American or even Russian ...

Astute class submarine HMS Astute test firing a BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) in the Gulf of Mexico in Aug. 2011. HMS Triumph had demonstrated the capability in combat just several ...

Our fourth Astute class submarine, Audacious, has completed her first ever dive at our site in Barrow-in-Furness. Watch as the 7,400 tonne, 97-metre long attack submarine submerges beneath the water.

Stealth submarines can spend a very long time underwater nearly anywhere on Earth, and the U.K.'s Astute-Class subs can take it to the next level.

The Royal Navy’s penultimate Astute Class attack submarine attack submarine has been launched at BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) says that moving the nuclear-powered attack submarine from the BAE Systems construction hall at Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria, and into the water was a huge milestone ...

The first Suffren Class attack submarine has recently begun trials. It is a thoroughly capable design which brings the French Navy closer to the U.S. and British capabilities. It will add new ...

2009 - Two submarines -- France's Le Triomphant and Britain's HMS Vanguard -- collided at very low speed, having failed to detect each other because they were designed to be silent and invisible.