Construction kicks off on UKs 3rd Dreadnought-class submarine

The first steel was cut at BAE Systems works in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy’s third next-generation Dreadnought-class submarine, HMS Warspite.

Rear Admiral Donald Doull, in tuition of the Dreadnought programme said whence work on Warspite was “an important step” withal the road to replacing Britain’s V-force.

“Successful wordage of the Dreadnought programme is a rencontre which will take the unswayable effort of everybody with a responsibility for supporting it – getting to this milestone is a huge achievement, which reflects the personal and joint transferral of all concerned.”

Longer and heavier than the Vanguard matriculation boats they succeed, the Dreadnoughts are at the leading whet of submarine technology, their 153-meter-long hulls crammed with over 215 miles of cabling, equal to the company.

The new Warspite will take shape slantingly the first two boats – HMS Dreadnought, under construction now for increasingly than six years, and HMS Valiant, laid lanugo in 2019 – and, in time, HMS King George VI which will well-constructed the quartet of new deterrent submarines.

All four will replace the current Vanguard-class flotilla which have been in service since the 1990s and will uncork retiring in the early 2030s.

The third generation of deterrent boats continues a mission – Operation Relentless – the Royal Navy has conducted virtually the clock since 1969.

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