HMS
Ambush has officially joined the Royal Navy fleet following a ceremony.
The nuclear-powered submarine arrived at her home port of HM Naval Base
Clyde in September last year where she has been undergoing sea trials
before entering operational service later this year.
HMS Ambush was launched in January 2011 at the BAE Systems shipyard
in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It is the second in a planned class of
seven submarines and she follows sister vessel HMS Astute to HMNB Clyde,
in Scotland, where the first in class has been based since leaving BAE
Systems in 2009. |
The
Astute class boasts a range of world class capabilities inside each
97 metre long hull. Powered by a Rolls-Royce nuclear propulsion system,
the reactor never needs refuelling. The sonar system has the processing
power of 2,000 laptops and can track ships 3,000 miles away. They are
armed with both Tomahawk land attack missiles and Spearfish torpedoes
and her missiles have a target range of 1,200 miles with accuracy measured
in metres. |
