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 ....