UK's Royal Navy's latest Astute class nuclear powered attack submarine
has officially been named Agamemnon after the ancient Greek king.
It is the 6th of seven Astute class as his
ends being built for the Royal Navy.
Now the boat is due to be launched later this
year.
My colleague Shivan Shananna gets you the latest details on
this.
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The Royal Navy's Astute class submarines,
five of which are currently in service,
are 97 meters long and displays 7400 tons when dived.
They are the Uks largest and most powerful attack submarines
and can strike at targets up to 1000 kilometers from
the coast with pinpoint accuracy.
Equipped with world leading sensors,
the Astute class carry both Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles
and Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes.
Astute submarines are the first nuclear submarines to be designate
to be designed.
Entirely in a three-dimensional computer aided environment,
now the submarines can circumnavigate the globe submerged,
producing their own oxygen and drinking water.
HMS Astute, HMS Ambush, HMS Artful and HMS Audacious are
already in service and were joined in February 2023 by
HMS Anson.
A further two boards named Agamemnon and Agencott are currently
under construction now.
The first of class, HMS Astute was launched in June
2007 and commissioned in August 2010,
while the 7th and last estimated class board to be
named Agriculture was a laid down in May 2018.
Is worthy noting here that the first Royal Navy vessel
named Agamemnon was a 64 gunship of the line that
was commissioned in 1781.
Now the ship was captained by the future Lord Nelson
for three years from January 1793 and saw action in
various campaigns including the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805.
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