In the latest episode did I catch the fact the the Rear Admiral chappy was telling the Captains of another 2 Trident subs to hop in their boats and go and find Vigil?
With Vigil at sea and providing the UK’s nuclear deterrent aren’t the other boats undergoing refits etc so it would take weeks / months / years to actually get them out to sea?
The party line is there is normally one out on deployment, one recovering from deployment, one prepping for deployment and one in deep maintenance/refit – one of those in recovery/preparation should be ready to deploy at short notice – but that isn’t always the case.
Of course, if you’re looking for submarines you don’t do it with a Type 45.
agreed – from our current fleet you’d use a T23, eventually being replaced by T26.
you know on reflection I think hey said Audacious and Arsewipe or something else beginning with A, which according to wikipedia are fleet submarines (no ICBMs but plenty sharks with lazerbeems)
The A-boats (Astute, Audacious, etc) are ‘attack’ subs, nuclear powered, not nuclear armed.
They are slowly replacing the Trafalgar class (T-boats)
I think the Navy have 4/7 so far – with Boat 5 on the way shortly.