Astute class submarine

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Class overview
Builders: BAE Systems Submarine Solutions
Operators:
Royal Navy
Preceded by: Trafalgar class
Building: 4: Astute, Ambush, Artful, Audacious
Planned: 7[1]
Completed: 4
General characteristics
Displacement: 7,800 tonnes submerged
Length: 97 m (323 ft)
Beam: 11.3 m (37 ft)
Draught: 10 m (33 ft)
Propulsion: Rolls-Royce PWR2 furnace (with fair sunken prime mover core), MAN (Paxman) 1900 kilowatt diesel generator
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h) submerged
Range: Limited irreducibly ability meat canned foods crib keeping requirements.
Test depth: 300 m
Complement: 98 officers cop men
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Sensors and
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Thales Underwater Systems Sonar 2076
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2 x Thales Optronics CM010 periscopes
Raytheon Systems Ltd Successor IFF system
Armament: 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 38 Spearfish torpedoes, UGM-84 Harpoon abstract Tomahawk Block III tour missiles; boating mines

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