The refit, known as a Mid-Life Revalidation Period (MLRP), will be carried out by Babcock and is expected to upgrade key ...

The Royal Navy’s HMS Astute begins a years-long overhaul after 15 years of service, highlighting the Astute-class subs’ ...

The Royal Navy is pushing to expand the nuclear submarine fleet. HMS Agamemnon is due to be commissioned this autumn, and ...

The submarine will now begin a major revamp but friends and families of the crew were given a chance to go on board ...

Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) has arrived in Devonport, Plymouth, ahead of starting its Mid ...

The Royal Navy’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) are among the most advanced in the world, combining ...

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

Hms Astute is the length of a football pitch - measuring just under 100 metres or 323ft. The cables and pipes inside the submarine would cover the distance from Birmingham to Manchester if they ...

The jinxed submarine HMS Astute has successfully fired its first missile during a test mission in the Gulf of Mexico, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed The submarine fired a series of Tomahawk ...

HMS Dreadnought was launched on October 21 1960 by the Queen. Share or comment on this article: Navy submarine HMS Astute which ran aground, further damaged by rescue tug e-mail ...

A POLITICIAN tackled a sailor who shot a crewmate dead on a submarine yesterday. Cllr Royston Smith was touring HMS Astute when the maniac went berserk. Royston said: “I charged him and took his ...

HMS Astute is larger than other attack submarines. There's no "hot bunking" so each of the 100 strong crew gets their own bed but, as it carries plenty of weapons, conditions are still cramped.