Britain Prepares To Launch The Biggest Submarine That It Has Ever Built

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Titan: Two shipyard workers, to the lower left of the huge propellor show the enormous scale of HMS Ambush, which is launched this week

Set To Launch, Our Nuclear Leviathan: The Enormous Scale Of The Biggest Submarine Ever Built In Britain -- The Daily Mail

Her nuclear reactor could power a city the size of Southampton, she will never need refuelling and she can use her guided ­missiles to pulverise an enemy more than 1,000 miles away.

Meet HMS Ambush, the Royal Navy’s newest hunter-killer submarine. The ‘super-sub’ is able to make oxygen and fresh water from ­seawater, to keep the 98 crew — it has not yet been decided if this will include women — alive in time of crisis.

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My Comment: Expensive, over budget, delivery delays, and problems with her sister vessel HMS Astute .... this sub better do the work that it`s supporters have promised.

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