Vanguard class nuclear submarine
But with all the scientists and engineers imported from Africa into the UK, how is this even possible?
On a more serious note, it is high time for America to suspend its maintenance program of the Trident systems the UK uses.
Yet another Islamic nuclear armed nation is not in the interests of the US.
The replacements should have been coming into service in 2024, not 2032 like they are.
The issues are mainly about the Royal Navy’s ship and submarine R+D design center at Bristol being closed in the early ’90s. Which meant that ship manufacturers who had previously been given a 95% complete ship/submarine design. Had to design the whole ship)submarine from scratch. Whereas previously they’d just chosen which ovens, microwaves, washing machines binks etc. to install.
There weren’t enough orders in the ’90s for SSN subs to follow on from the Vanguard class. This led to a multi year gap in production. With all of the workers being laid off. The better ones got new jobs away from Barrow-In-Furness and the rest had skills that decayed.
The submarine overhaul and scrapping base at Devonport. Was neglected for years. With the Health and Safety Executive prohibiting it from carrying out scrapping duties in about 2000 and it wasn’t in the mid 2010s expected to be able to resume scrapping until 2020+.
The replacements should have been coming into service in 2024, not 2032 like they are.
This has been a consistent problem in the UK for years.
“Dreadnought is late, Astute class submarine delivery is getting later, there is a massive backlog in Astute class maintenance and refitting, which continues to get worse, and SSN-Aukus is a submarine which is not going to deliver what the UK or Australia needs in terms of capability or timescale.
“Performance across all aspects of the programme continues to get worse in every dimension. This is an unprecedented situation in the nuclear submarine age.
“It is a catastrophic failure of succession and leadership planning.”
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2143258/britain-incapable-maintaining-nuclear-submarine
