MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Royal Navy's third Astute Class attack submarine ready for sea trials
Artful, the third of the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Astute Class attack submarines, has arrived at her Scottish base port from where she will carry out sea trials before entering service later this year, the U.K. Ministry of Defense announced. Read full article
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Aug 21st, 2015 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ready for sea trials?
lol
remember it is another product of english “engineering”.
it is ready to be sent to the litter basket.
“Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen'”
“Nuclear submarines went to sea with potentially disastrous defect
British vessels Turbulent and Tireless allowed to leave port with safety valves sealed off, risking catastrophic explosion, leaked memo reveals”
“Nuclear submarine's nine radioactive leaks in 4 years
The Ministry of Defence has admitted that nuclear submarines have leaked radioactive material into water nine times in the last 4 years”
Do I detect good old fashioned jealousy?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0state of Argentinian subs?
ARA Santa Cruz 30 years old - ran aground near Buenos Arires in 2014 ARA San Juan 28 years old.
ARA Salta 43 years old.
Not exactly a modern fleet are they? How many days operationally have they spent at sea in the last 3 years? a total of less than 20 and that includes the 2 days Santa Cruz was aground lol
Pork Cedron, beats your surfboard and ARA canoes. Btw, has your surfboard got a turd deflector?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Roll me over, roll me over, I'm in the ARA, roll me over, do it again!
Got it?
Haha! Hahaha!
Aug 21st, 2015 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice to see paul-carrion practically aflame with jealousy, lol!
Tell us some more about 'little England', please!
You do realise that this submarine can fire missiles into Buenos Aires, from 1200 km away, whilst underwater?
You wouldn't even know who, or what, had hit you.
That is real power, you sad little window-licker.
I think that to counter the Malvinas song we should all sing the following
Aug 21st, 2015 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ Rule brittania, Brittania rules the waves
Britain never never shall be slaves.”
The Royal Navy.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Keeping the English safe since 1660.
God Bless Good King Harry!
To be fair both UK and Argentine submarines can stay underwater for a very very long time. The only difference is that the Uk crew will be able to go home afterwards.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It not only paulcedron II sying it!!
Aug 21st, 2015 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is also the British press!!
What an amazing achievement and she even looks like a deadly killer. I think the frightening thing for any Argentine ship is, are they there or aren't they, how near to the Falklands do we get before we find out and draw our last breaths.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They must just look at this and think 'crap', we have no answer to this whatsoever
I wonder where the idiot child learned about marine engineering? In Argentina?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Boludo!
@1. The “Trident whistleblower” who was a junior rating still under training.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Nuclear submarines went to sea with potentially disastrous defect“ Except that nothing happened.
“Nuclear submarine's nine radioactive leaks in 4 years” Except that it was 12 years, not 4. The relevant “article” was a joke. Here it is.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/5349814/Nuclear-submarines-nine-radioactive-leaks-in-12-years.html
Which ones would anyone take seriously?
@8. Now let's all have a laugh at the 3 argie subs that can't even manage 20 hours submerged between them in a year.
Fake Aussie, if your canoe sinks or your surfboard turns over its probably a sonic wave from HMS Artful. You would literally sink in that shite floating around your shores.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pork Cedron does your Beechcraft Bonanza have floaters?
paulcedron II is just very upset at the moment,
Aug 21st, 2015 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0after seeing the passing of his own military, and the success of another British engineering feat,
its hard for him to take any more,
no matter how much he defends his failing country, it just gets worse and worse..
lol.
Just to annoy the troll even more ,the TLAM cruise missile has a range of 1200miles not KM.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps Artful could do a demo and neatly take out the Pink Palace?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So Paul, when these vessels are deployed South, Mrs Kirchner won't feel threatened and start crying that the UK is militarising the South Atlantic. I mean if they are as bad as you say she won't be able to....will she?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still they do appear extremely impressive and capable war machines.
16 Bottyboypaulie III
Aug 21st, 2015 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, yes, yes!!! I am sure that they are as crap as you say.
Please provide the article that you are quoting from, just so we can all be sure that you are not “Making it all up because you are DEAD jealous that your rotting navy can't even get your own ships to come back up again after they've gone down”
You can do that, can't you? There's a lamb.....
To all you other serious posters:-
Forces TV said that her sonar can detect a ship leaving New York harbour while she is still in the English Channel. That is one pair of very, VERY big ears she has on her....... As the submarine force likes to say:-
“There are two types of ships, there are submarines and then there are targets”
oh, and just before I go, another one for BottyBoyPaulie from the above article:-
“Armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, Artful will be able to strike at targets up to 1,200 kilometers from the coast with pinpoint accuracy”
I think the key words in that sentence are “1,200Km” and “pinpoint”
.......just saying..........
the problem, my dear englander is that those vessels contaminate every single place they touch.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so, my honest advice is, leave those ships in england.
england is already a very, very contaminated place anyway.
Hows that over priced turd of a U boat going to keep the waves of Migrants out of the UK?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The place is already starting to resemble parts of Africa and Palestine.
Thats is the biggest threat to the UK, not some mystical nuclear threat
British torpedoes designed in the late 1920,s blew 20m from the bow of the General Belgrano.The second exploded under the boiler rooms destroying them completely and vented out of the upper deck.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A Spearfish would cut any of your rusting hulks in half.
Like the idea of taking out the pink palace.Tlam block IV 1000lb blast warhead. 10m accuracy at 1300 miles.
16 Pablo Cabana Boy
Aug 21st, 2015 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where are your links?
Surely we can expect that you are only quoting from The Boys Big Book of Trolling, Annual 2004
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Aug 21st, 2015 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0England is a very contaminated place?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There's a riverin BsAs that Paul needs to visit.
The he should look up the definition of 'teething problems' before regaling us with tales of Argentina's new submarines..... WOT? There aren't any?
Perhaps less Malvinas propaganda and nazi saluting would help Argentina produce more engineers.
@23: On another forum, I noted that you criticized a quote from the Telegraph and here you are quoting the bloody Grauniad!!!! Tit!
Aug 21st, 2015 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 05 - but Britannia doesn't rule the waves.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0US, Russia, China rule that right out.
India, Italy, France, Japan would all also question that assertion.
Nice song, but modern facts ruin its potential, maybe change the lyrics a bit and you can sing it without knowing you're singing something patently incorrect.
maybe 'once kind of ruled the waves'.
China.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Russia.
LOL
@16 “let me enlighten you, bunch of not-too-bright-bennies”, please do. What happened to the Argentine project to “nuclearise” two Argentine built subs in the 80s? And what happened to the other two?
Aug 21st, 2015 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And while you're about it. What happened to ARA Santa Fe in South Georgia? What kind of armaments were used? How water-tight was it? Where is it now?
26
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Britannia waives the rules....
How's that....
it seems some benny is reporting my comments...lol
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 02:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0losers
Haha muted!
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sums up your life.
Skip.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0LOL
You are exaggerating Paul. The UK has years of experience harnessing nuclear power and developing these awesome killing machines to defend UK territory. I have no doubt Mrs Kirchner and frog face will become upset but that's half the fun.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 03:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0So how many versions of paulcedron must we now have to tolerate?
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0@8 aussiesunshinee
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh god! Not the British press?
No point sinking the Argie U-boat fleet just sink the tug boats that have to tow them.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Up perescope,down fashist junta!
30 Voice, you are not fooling anyone.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Russia and China rule the waves?
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Proof please paulie-parasito!
China has nothing outside of it's own waters.
Russia can't project globally, and has to ask France to build warships for them. Except France won't anymore. Gave them their money back.
The only true global sea-power is the USA.
However, the UK is still a serious player.
Two state of the art aircraft carriers in construction.
Three of these beauties ready to go.
Hmm... serious power.
With France, UK and USA, NATO is the dominant force in the world.
Keep licking them windows, paulie!
Whilst these developed countries test new technology we are still trapped with 3rd world problems.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0A girl is gang raped and has her eyes cut out in an exorcism:
http://www.diarionorte.com/article/127218/exorcismo-sangriento-la-familia-asegura-que-estaba-poseida-la-joven-a-la-que-extirparon-los-ojos
Decay and breakdown everywhere.
@26. Can you list the current locations of the vessels of the Chinese, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese and Russian vessels that support your contention?
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@29. Might be worth remembering. Just where are all Royal Navy submarines?
@30. Maybe you were being rude. And ignorant. As usual.
34 gordo1
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“So how many versions of paulcedron must we now have to tolerate?”
By my count, we are up to the Mk3 version.
You would think that each new model would be an improvement on the last but ALAS!!, that has proved not to be the case......
Just between you and me, I don't BottyBoyPaulie has got the hang of this re-invention thing.
30,
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0seeing as the truth passes right over you, its a waste of time,
if your country was in the right, take it to the ICJ,
before your country disappears into separate countries. And Argentina bites the dust of past history.
40 - strange question. Yes - they're somewhere in the sea.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 033 - interesting choice of words. Which UK territory were you referring to, now be honest.
Trolls defeated… totally
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Russian navy? Gads Vestige is living in the past. The Glory days of the former Soviet union were 50 yrs ago.
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Russian Navy has maybe 40-50 ships that float.
And the best of them are 30+ yrs old and have to be decommissioned soon.
Their navy probably will probably just be coastal by 2030.
Vestige certainly lives up to its nickname.
You really should read before you post.
Reminds me of the idiotic Voice persona who can't even use google maps
Voice @ 29
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Plagiarism! This was said by Jorge Herrera Vargas in 1982. You really are a third-rate little sod.
Sinister looking vessels aren't they. Superbly constructed and armed with the best cruise missiles that strike within 10M at 1,299 MILES. AND the killer problem to overcome: the CREW are the best in the world (sorry US).
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Enough to scare the crap out of anybody wanting to take the Falklands and that's without the Type 47 surface ships.
A quick review of the argie 'military' hard assets reveals: fuck all!
NO big gun shells (all OoD), no flying fighter planes (major airframe fatigue), NO SAA for their 'deadly' full auto SLR's (one aimed shot and that's your lot) and most importantly only COWARDS in the uniform.
Oh dear, they really ARE fucked!
Oh dear, never mind. :o)
@ 12 CaptainSilver
“Pork Cedron does your Beechcraft Bonanza have floaters?”
Only when he has to put it down in the ocean and he can't help crapping himself.
I'll be seeing a lot of that sub if it's doing trials...it will be in and out of the Clyde like a yoyo always escorted by a couple of boats...quite vulnerable on the surface I would think...
Aug 22nd, 2015 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 046
...like you would know...I bet you googled the phrase
whereas I already knew it....see the difference....
Every word and phrase you have ever spoken has been spoken by millions of people before you so....STFU before I slap you daft....
Well, Voice, perhaps you did know Herrera Vargas' bon mot from before, and perhaps you didn't. You don't strike me as a particularly truthful person. The point is you tried to pass it off as your own, which makes you a third-rate little sod. In a real country, plagiarism is punished by the law.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 049 ynsere
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 12:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0voice “not truthful”
That says a lot, doesn't it?
He has a history of lying or pretence that everyone has picked up on.
If you have to resort to lying to make an argument or appear to be clever, it shows some fundamental shortcomings...
“You really should read before you post.”
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 03:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0- Yankee, doing his irony thing again.
Probably cause he saw the word Russian.
Not much use when you are at war with crazed gunmen on trains and beheadings in the desert.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:05 am - Link - Report abuse 049
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0To utter a known phrase is not plagiarism...
I don't have to credit an author for every pearl of wisdom I use in a sentence...
I wouldn't even know who to credit with “pearl of wisdom”...
Show me where I claimed the phrase as my own...
Show me where I strike you as untruthful....
To know the truth one must be certain of the lie...
To know a lie one must be certain of the truth...
Your stupidity knows no bounds....
50
Show me a lie or STFU.....
@ 52 Livingthenightmare (in TDC)
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Not much use when you are at war with crazed gunmen on trains and beheadings in the desert.”
I see your mother must have dropped you on your head when you were a baby, your comprehension and logic being so poor.
“Not much use when you are at war with crazed gunmen on trains”
This coward, with a brain of similar capacity to yours it would seem, was overcome by brave US Servicemen and a middle aged male UK IT Consultant. They kicked his arse up and down the train.
What idiot, other than you, would consider a nuclear submarine as the appropriate response. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
“and beheadings in the desert.”
As long as the group of bat-shit mad ragheads were within 1200 MILES of the submarine then a cruise missile would land within 10 meters of them. Yes, the poor sod these idiots (not your relations are they?) beheaded would be dead but so would everybody within the blast radius of the missile.
Once a westerner is in the hands of these bat-shit mad jihadists then you know you are dead and I would be hoping for revenge on those and their wives and children who killed me.
You of course would not need beheading, you would already have died from a combination of abject fear and dehydration caused by shitting and pissing yourself every minute of the day.
Let the argie trolls dismiss this fine submarines deadly potential as so did the argentines in 1982 to devasting effect, dont take my words ask the survivors of the Belgrano what happens when you dismiss and underestimate your enemies prowess, just one sinking from one submarine and the entire argentine fleet shit their pants never to leave port again even cowardly fleeing instead of picking up belgrano survivors, still want to dis this vessel argie trolls :)
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what a beast..what a deterrent...what a fine UK vessel.
And again US Military saving French citizens while their own people hide in a barricaded room.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
@53 wee voice
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Show me a lie or STFU.....”
LOL... “I own a place in Trout Run, Pennsylvania...”
LOL... PMSL .... !!!!
Lying troll !
Hmmm someone who lives in a dismal sink town in Britain at the edge of a damp loch owns a piece of the US - lol!
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These trolls do come up with some tall stories. Pork Cedrons Beechcraft Bonanza, Nostrils language skills (is he now dead, or in a padded cell now?) etc etc..:-)
@43. Only strange if you have little comprehension of the English language. The earlier inaccuracy was “US, Russia, China rule that right out.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0India, Italy, France, Japan would all also question that assertion.” Where are all these Chinese, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese and Russian vessels then? Aside from UK waters, the Royal Navy is currently present in the Arctic and Northern Europeean waters, the Mediterranean and Black Sea, Gibraltar, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the North and South Atlantic including the Falklands Patrol and the Antarctic.
Having left out UK Home waters, you can leave out Chinese, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese and Russian waters. With the exception of the Russian navy, they all stick with where they are. The Russians are hoping to suggest that they are the equivalent of the old Soviet navy. But they aren't. They go out on little “trips”. Couple of months at a time. Most of them couldn't rule a piece of paper. Meanwhile the Royal Navy goes where it wishes, when it wishes.
Let's remind you of the nazi Bismarck and Tirpitz. Huge, powerful, well-designed vessels. Both sunk by the British.
@'48. Lots of large vessels are escorted in and out of port by tugs. How would you “think” without a brain? Is it likely that a British submarine would mount its anti-aircraft machine guns, mini-guns or cannon when entering a British port? Thicko.
51. Poor Vestige. Living up to his nickname every time it posts.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 057. Voice is up to 5 houses all over the world. And yet he chooses to live in one of the most inhospitable miserable places on Earth. Go figure.
Trout Run PA is full of trailer trash and the best places to eat is McDonalds a couple towns away or maybe a gas station/restaurant a little closer. Another place nobody would choose to vacation much less live full time if they could help it.
With subs like these, the new destroyers and frigates Nelson would have been proud.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am surprised Voice hasnt got a place in Intercourse PA, just the spot for prize dicks?
SOS. One of these fantastic ships is needed now to patrol the peaceful South Atlantic!
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
59 - your argument is pretty lame, getting to the heart of the issue the RN is not number 1. Or number 2, or number 3, its probably somewhere around the 5 - 7 region. And sailing in all directions all the doo dah day won't change that.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for your idea that the nations on the list can't sail around the globe if necessary, heres the Chinese navy popping into portsmouth for a quick hello.
(seeemingly also going where it wishes, when it wishes)
Lets remind you that this is 2015.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906934/Three-massive-warships-wow-crowds-Portsmouth-home-Royal-Navy-s-just-pity-CHINESE-not-British.html
Yankee you have no argument, proposition or point, just random insults and non-sequiturs.
63. Vestige, you have no argument, proposition or point, just random insults and non-sequiturs.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-russian-navy-is-on-the-verge-of-collapse-b0ce344ebf96
Read before you post dufus.
Again, complete non sequitur.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok. A link talking down the Russian navy, very good, but why ? Who knows .... only sistah Yankee.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Russian_Navy.
Here's one talking it up. Just for the heck of it.
59
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Despite naming yourself after a sub you know fcuk all....
They don't have deck guns...
They don't need tugs to sail up the Clyde...
They are not allowed to come into port submerged....
They are vulnerable on the surface and are always accompanied by a couple of boats that do have guns...for protection...
60
Wrong...seven....
four residential three commercial.....
I would say that cities are the most inhospitable miserable places on Earth. Go figure....
What is not to like about mountains, rivers and a distinct lack of neighbours....
getting to the heart of the issue the RN is not number 1. Or number 2, or number 3, its probably somewhere around the 5 – 7
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
top 10 navies [ size capability, ] in the world, including The Five Most-Powerful Navies on the Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_8Y6MOz0I
10- Thailand
09- South Korea
08-Turkey
07-India
06-Japan
5 most powerfull,
05-France
04-Royal Navy
03 Russia
02-China
01-USA
According to these.
so they say.
Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is piece of junk,no better than “tug boat bait” The U.S. Navy's 10 Nimits class are the most powerful surface ships ever constructed.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Putting a Nimits against the Admiral Kusnetsov would be a bit longer like HMS Conqueror V Belgrano.
Manufacturing begins on the Global Combat Ship next year, HMS Queen Elizabeth Super carrier begins her sea trials in Aug 2016 and will be handed to the Royal Navy in 2017. There are four more of these incredible submarines to come and HMS Prince of Wales is ahead of schedule.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have to laugh at all the TALK about rightful sovereignty of our territories, what really matters in the end is who is prepared to take them from us.....nobody!
Case in point is Crimea, what nation on this planet is going to try and forcibly take Crimea from Russia? If you defend your territories, nobody can touch them.
The Arjunta trolls should be reminded of our capabilities and willingness to use them.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The next generation Type 26 frigate or Global combat ship will have 16 strike length VLS missile launchers capable of hitting Arjunta airfields from about 400 miles East of Port Stanley .
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2015/august/21/150821-f35-gattling-gun
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 065. You might want to reread that wiki its full of inaccuracies and out of date hopes and dreams.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Kind of like you life and everything you post...I imagine.
67 - I see you're citing a youtube video as a source.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Japanese navy is #4 imho. 50,000+ personnel. 400,000+ tonnage. 120+ ships.
Japanese tech/quality.
73. Its just as accurate as Wiki
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My my you are living up to you nickname today
Didn't you get enough sleep last night?
Did you start drinking earlier than usual?
oh look more random pointless groundless insults.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you made up your mind what you're ranting about yet ?
Or did I just set off your murica reflex by using the R word.
The Japanese Navy for years has used RR and GE Gas turbines for propulsion.
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Almost all of its weapon systems are from the U.S. Navy.
75. Maybe you think my posts are random and pointless because you can't follow a conversation?
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@60 Voice! Neighbours - who wants neighbours especially if they are like you!
Aug 23rd, 2015 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wailing bagpipes, damp dismal surroundings, nasty neighbours, banned from the yacht club and Combined Services, no pals, no partner, no kids. Oh dear MacDonald. No hope, no life…
Future royal navy
Aug 24th, 2015 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0This 21st-century Aircraft Carrier, combined with the Astute-class subs, the Daring-class destroyers and the future Type 26 Frigates will mean the Royal Navy will continue to pack a punch far above its size
Plus the next generation of nuke subs,
And the RFA new ships,
We may be a tiny island,
But would you go to war against them.
Even the world’s top 3 would be severely damaged.
But no doubt pauly will still knock it, from his nuke bunker miles below ground..lol
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77 - what is your assertion.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0what do you contend.
Slow, leaky, rusty: Britain's £10bn submarine beset by design flaws
Aug 24th, 2015 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Exclusive: Royal Navy's HMS Astute 'has a V8 engine with a Morris Minor gearbox'
Hunter-killer submarines were doomed from the start
The Royal Navy's new multibillion pound hunter-killer submarine, HMS Astute, has been beset by design and construction flaws that have raised doubts about its performance and potential safety.
Other problems that have affected the boat in recent months include:
• Flooding during a routine dive that led to Astute performing an emergency surfacing.
• Corrosion even though the boat is essentially new.
• The replacement or moving of computer circuit boards because they did not meet safety standards.
• Concern over the instruments monitoring the nuclear reactor because the wrong type of lead was used.
• Questions being raised about the quality and installation of other pieces of equipment.
• Concern reported among some crew members about the Astute's pioneering periscope, that does not allow officers to look at the surface “live”.
81 Think
Aug 24th, 2015 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0repeating yourself - doesnt make it true - bet that sold a lot of newspapers though.
you sound jealous
Pork Cedron, grasping at straws once again. Where are the ARA subs. Didn't one get sunk by a wasp? Couldn't your Ford Fiesta factory knock up a few new ones? Or, couldnt the 'roll over' destroyer be converted into a sub?
Aug 24th, 2015 - 06:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0The fist ship of the class HMS Astute has now completed 2 worldwide deployments.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 08:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0The sonar system is according to the U.S. navy the best in the world.
Come on Arjunta,have a go if you think you are hard enough?
@81 the question is could the Artful dish out the same fate to enemy warships as the conquerer had to Belgrano?? my guess is most definitely and then some, regardless of any testing problems. I would not want to be on the receiving end of the most capable vessel working in tandem with its task force.... would you?
Aug 24th, 2015 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0good to have these problems now than in service unlike the argentine navy whos teething problems last from day one to decommision and spend most time lob sided in port wating to be put out of their misery.
@ 81 POLLY! POLLY! POLLY! (that makes the III)
Aug 24th, 2015 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0You've been chucked off the board AGAIN!
I thought at one time you were the puppet of The Lunatic of Chubut (Think, no less) but even that old twat was only chucked off the one time.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
The troll is referring to a newspaper article from about 5 years ago.
Aug 24th, 2015 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The first ship of the class like every fist always irons out the problems for the succeeding ships,and has rectified at first refitting.Astute has now completed 2 worldwide deployments without trouble.
The Spearfish torpedo is the fastest and deepest diving of any navy,guided by fiber optic cable, the boats own sonar and terminal homing.Arjunt ships would be cut in half by the blast and gas bubble created.
And remember trolls the RN is the only navy to have sunk a dived submarine from a dived submarine and that was with the same Torpedoes that sunk the Belgrano.
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Aug 24th, 2015 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Was Think chucked off one time...?
How did he retain the same name....?
I couldn't, I lost A_Voice...
@ 88 Voice
Aug 25th, 2015 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Lunatic of Chubut (El Think) claimed that he was victimised and the MP agreed to let him back as is!
He is a lying bastard though so who knows?
87 MK8 Torpedo
Aug 25th, 2015 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“the RN is the only navy to have sunk a dived submarine from a dived submarine”
How cool is that? I knew that ARA General Belgrano was the first surface vessel to be sunk by a nuclear powered submarine ( Our friend HMS Conqueror )
And I know that the UK Armed Forces hold a number of records ( longest tank to tank kill, Longest sniper kill, Most number of people killed by 1 sniper bullet ) but never knew that...
Please could you give me the name of the Sub?
@90
Aug 25th, 2015 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The submarine was HMS Venturer.
Sent to the Fedje area, Venturer was then ordered on the basis of Enigma decrypts to seek, intercept and destroy U-864 which was in the area. U-864 was carrying a cargo of 65 tonnes of mercury and Messerschmitt Me 262 Junkers Jumo 004B jet engine parts to Japan,as well as Japanese scientist who had been working on homing torpedoes.
This was the first and only time a fully dived submarine sunk a fully dived submarine,the crew had to work out the fire control solution in 3 dimensions.Something never before even attempted.
70 years ago!! Fascinating story!
Aug 25th, 2015 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guess who saw Artful today...
Aug 26th, 2015 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0The pics are not great from the smart phone and it was very fast...I saw it at Kirn on the Clyde heading west, took a pic then I thought I would catch it at Dunoon traveling at 40mph in the car (10 mph over the speed limit)...but couldn't catch it...
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/696/20695566388_c9d7d9ed6f_c.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/696/20695566388_c9d7d9ed6f_c.jpg
A note to Conqueror....
The two dots near it are two inflatable patrol boats with large guns mounted on the front....like I said.....;-)
91 MK8 Torpedo
Aug 26th, 2015 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you for that and, to echo Troy at 93, what a story!!
A Fire control solution in 3 dimensions??? 70 years ago, what a story.
@92 94
Aug 26th, 2015 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One of the lest known but greatest achievements of our silent service!
Remember Arjuntina “We come unseen”
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