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Originally Posted by joe-1981
You all forget the UK's biggest conventional deterant, Submarine launched TLAM. We can hit any land mass in the world, we never had that capability before.
The political pressure having 1 or more Nuclear boats sat of a foreign coast is massive. Look what Conquerer did in the Falkland and that was without any land strike capability.
Stick a T boat of the Argie coast with 30 TLAM and watch them back right off. Same with other potential problem states.
I hate seeing our war fighting capability being measure only in our surface fleet which is redundant in the modern theatre. The Ark should have gone years ago i am glad they have finally seen sense and thank god they are not scrapping the Astute project.
And yes i was a sun dodger and probably highly biased  |
But it does look like the Astute project is scrapping itself as it seems that the Astute class does also have the ability to hit any landmass in the world as well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-11605365
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Nuclear submarine 'grounded on rocks' off Skye
Royal Navy submarine HMS Astute has got into difficulty off Skye, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.
An eye-witness told BBC Scotland that the boat appeared to be grounded on rocks a few miles from the Skye road bridge.
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