HMS Astute

[CastrolCraig.]

following on from the comments about Astute over on the falklands thread, whats the latest on her, any bods in the know?

[spitfire-ian]

Wikipedia said:

Astute is scheduled to be delivered to the Royal Navy at the end of 2010

[Jonny671]

Shes just gone lurking 6 days ago

[CastrolCraig.]

Jonny671 said:

Shes just gone lurking 6 days ago

thats what im thinking....

[Jonny671]

CastrolCraig. said:

Jonny671 said:

Shes just gone lurking 6 days ago

thats what im thinking....

I'd say she was probably not far from the Falklands at the moment?

[rhinochopig]

I wouldn't get your hopes up that she's off South. She'll still be being shaken down. Astute has a lot of new technology on board which will take time to V&V all the equipment. A quick google makes no mention of her having completed TLAM trials.

Keep an eye out for the T Boats, they if any, will be the ones headed south as they have the same TLAM capability that Astute has.

[Jonny671]

rhinochopig said:

I wouldn't get your hopes up that she's off South. She'll still be being shaken down. Astute has a lot of new technology on board which will take time to V&V all the equipment. A quick google makes no mention of her having completed TLAM trials.

Keep an eye out for the T Boats, they if any, will be the ones headed south as they have the same TLAM capability that Astute has.

Wouldn't it be worth going down that way to do it shake down though?

[skyslimit]

Jonny671 said:

rhinochopig said:

I wouldn't get your hopes up that she's off South. She'll still be being shaken down. Astute has a lot of new technology on board which will take time to V&V all the equipment. A quick google makes no mention of her having completed TLAM trials.

Keep an eye out for the T Boats, they if any, will be the ones headed south as they have the same TLAM capability that Astute has.

Wouldn't it be worth going down that way to do it shake down though?

Bit far for engineering support if it goes wrong. She'll be staying northerly, probably the same patch of sea where we used to do the trials I'd imagine.

Awesome boats. I'm due a visit when a certain still serving mate of mine gets his finger out.

[rhinochopig]

skyslimit said:

Jonny671 said:

rhinochopig said:

I wouldn't get your hopes up that she's off South. She'll still be being shaken down. Astute has a lot of new technology on board which will take time to V&V all the equipment. A quick google makes no mention of her having completed TLAM trials.

Keep an eye out for the T Boats, they if any, will be the ones headed south as they have the same TLAM capability that Astute has.

Wouldn't it be worth going down that way to do it shake down though?

Bit far for engineering support if it goes wrong. She'll be staying northerly, probably the same patch of sea where we used to do the trials I'd imagine.

Awesome boats. I'm due a visit when a certain still serving mate of mine gets his finger out.

Lucky git. I was one of the design team, but left just before she went down the slip. I was promised an in invite but the farkers never sent one - still angry about that.

[Simpo Two]

There was a battleship in WW2 that was launched so urgently it sailed with workmen still on board finishing off. Might have been a carrier, can't remember.

[loltolhurst]

will she be allowed the skull and crossbones

[whirligig]

Saw her sailing from Faslane the other day for sea trials - no doubt out and about off West of Scotland.

[Condieboy]

Crap, I was hoping to get a look around her when I vist Faslane next week.

[FourWheelDrift]

whirligig said:

Saw her sailing from Faslane the other day for sea trials - no doubt out and about off West of Scotland.

Hunting Icelandic trawlers no doubt

[ruddermode]

Simpo Two said:

There was a battleship in WW2 that was launched so urgently it sailed with workmen still on board finishing off. Might have been a carrier, can't remember.

Prince of Wales at Denmark Strait, IIRC.

[FourWheelDrift]

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loltolhurst said:

will she be allowed the skull and crossbones

she'll have to sink something first!

[Jonny671]

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loltolhurst said:

will she be allowed the skull and crossbones

she'll have to sink something first!

Starting with;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Almirante_Brown_%...

[FourWheelDrift]

Yep, they buy German these days, but then after hiding so many escaping Nazis after the war they probably still have the contacts. They no longer buy our cast off's which is a shame, we could easily have sent them all a software update that makes them all fire at each other.

[S7Paul]

Well, in terms of guessing where Astute is & what it's doing at the moment, rhinochopig & skyslimit are the closest by far. Basically it's undergoing a series of Sea Trials interspersed with periods alongside in Faslane. Can't say more than that unfortunately.