Astute Submarine Looks like a Whale, Never Needs Refuelling

Click to viewThis is the British Royal Navy ’s new stratum of poor boy , the Astute . And this is what the nuclear - powered monster can do : generate its own air and water ; sit down in the English Channel and attack cruise missiles at North Africa ; but perhaps the most over-the-top feature of the British - built hoagie is that it will never need to be refuelled throughout its 25 - yr lifespan , meaning it can sail snipe the world 40 times without surfacing — if your seaman do n’t need alimentation , that is .

The Brits have put in an initial ordination for three of the subs — a snip at $ 2.33 billion each — and each one is expected to enter into service in 2009 , 2010 and 2011 . The contractor , BAE Systems , in Barrow , says it learned a lot from US sub constructor Electric Boat — namely to build sections of the sub vertically ( hence the 12 - account building towers at the plant ) which carry through on manpower . tally the big animate being in the gallery below , and the specs after the jump .

Weight : 7,800 tons

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Length : 97 meter

sentence to ramp up : 6 years , 4 month

powerfulness : pressurise body of water reactor , fueled for life

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Crew : 98

Astute Combat Management System ( ACMS ) receives datum from the sonar and other sensors and , through ripe algorithms and information manipulation , exhibit real time images on the command consoles .

Tomahawk Block IV sail missile from Raytheon fired from 533 mm torpedo thermionic vacuum tube ( range 1,000 mile , flies at 533 mph )

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