New figures released by the government reveal that more than one in ten posts are vacant across the Royal Navy's nuclear powered submarine fleet, raising concerns about risks to safety.
Astute & SSNs latest news
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Artful launched as concerns over Barrow quay safety are addressed
Artful, the third of the Royal Navy's 'Astute' class attack submarines, was launched at the BAE Systems Barrow shipyard in May.
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Nuclear regulator bars launch of submarine until quay safety concerns are resolved
The launch of the Navy's latest nuclear powered submarine has been blocked by the government's nuclear safety regulator because of concerns about the structural integrity of a dock quay at the shipyard where the submarine is under construction.
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Navy’s oldest serving submarine returns to service following radioactive leak
HMS Tireless, one of the Royal Navy's Trafalgar class hunter-killer submarines, has returned to service following a leak of radioactive material into its reactor compartment earlier this year.
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Fire on nuclear submarine HMS Torbay in Devonport Dockyard
A fire has broken out on the hull of the nuclear powered submarine HMS Torbay during maintenance work at Devonport Naval Dockyard.
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Navy’s newest submarine breaks down
The Royal Navy's newest nuclear powered submarine, HMS Ambush, has broken down just days after a commissioning ceremony at which it was formally welcomed into the Navy.
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Radiation leak forces Royal Navy nuclear submarine to return to base
Submarine ordered to return to dock following discovery of coolant leak.
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Audit Office: ‘More to do’ in improving Ministry of Defence equipment project performance
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) needs to do “consistently better” in improving cost management and reducing delays in the delivery of its major equipment projects according to the government's financial watchdog.
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Police investigating fatal shooting shocked by binge drinking on nuclear submarine HMS Astute
An inquest into a fatal shooting on board one of the Navy's nuclear powered submarines has been told that police investigating the incident were so shocked by binge drinking among the crew that they wrote to military authorities to highlight their worries.
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£2.7 billion contracts awarded for new Astute class submarines
The Ministry of Defence has awarded £2.7 billion of new contracts for construction of its planned fleet of Astute class attack submarines, despite costs overruns, severe delays, and concerns over quality of work on the vessels.
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Design and construction failures afflict HMS Astute
HMS Astute, the flagship for the Royal Navy's newest class of nuclear powered submarines, is reportedly too slow to carry out some of its duties, is subject to leaking and is beginning to corrode in places according to the Guardian newspaper.
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BAE – EADS merger raises Trident concerns for MoD
A planned multi-billion pound merger between two major military contractors has raised questions about how key government projects such as the Trident nuclear weapons programme would be managed. The Ministry of Defence is said to be demanding safeguards over the Trident programme as a condition of the planned merger between BAE Systems, which is currently […]