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Astute class has been the latest submarine in the British Navy since 2007. This huge submarine has a look similar to whales and nuclear drives are required, it does not require one replenishment throughout life. However, this is not unique in this respect.
The submarine Astute is built by Bae Systems in the city of Barrow-in-Furness, on the central west coast of Britain. The submarines will cost about $ 2.4 billion (USD). The Astute class consists of offensive submarines, unlike ballistic submarines for a rocket, such as the class vanguard .
In the United States Navy, the adute SSN, which means submersible ship (SS), nuclear submarine (n) submarine. SSN is known as "Attack" or "Hunter/Killer" and their primary purpose is to find and destroy enemy submarines and surface vessels to protect the surface actions. The Astute class has been developed to replace the aging Swiftsure Attack submarine class. Some of the latest class Trafalgar should also be replaced.
In 1997, the United Kingdom announced that it would conclude a contract with BAE Systems for the construction of 3 Astute submarines, which eventually ended with a $ 4 billion price after exceeding $ 2.2 billion, and recently closed four more for ~ 9 billion USD. To visualize the cost of cutting, imagine that build a 30 story height with a thick hull of military steel, fill it with some of the most expensive roads, secrecy and weapons technology known to a person, and causes diving up to 300 m (984 ft) water. The upbringing is equipped with a nuclear reactor, four giant turbines, 100 km (62 miles) of cabling and 10 km (6.2 miles) for more than one mcel components of the ilion. Modern submarines are expensive.
Several statistics about astute follows. The submarines have a shift of 7,800 metric tons, a length of 97 m (323 ft), a fuselage diameter of 11.3 m (37 ft), a height of 10 m (33 ft), a speed of 29 knots (54 km/h or 37 mph) and a test depth (984 ft). In the royal navy, the depth of the test is about 4/7 of the depth of crush, we can estimate the depth of crush at 525 m (1,722 ft) below the surface. astute usually has a complement to 98 officers and men, but capacity 109.
Astute is 30% larger than previous submarines with the UK nuclear attack and end the "hot bunking" process, while men on opposite shifts have to share the same bunk. The first three astute submarines to be built are HMS astute, HMS assaults and HMS refined.