Slow moving Ambush
The 235 tonne forward section of Ambush, the second of the Astute class submarines being built by BAE Systems in Barrow in Furness, recently took to the road.
The 235 tonne forward section of Ambush, the second of the Astute class submarines being built by BAE Systems in Barrow in
The steel construction, which is the height of a four-storey house, was carried on a 48-wheeled Scheurerle transporter on the quarter of a mile journey from the Barrow site’s new assembly facility to the Devonshire Dock Hall where the hull of the 7,800 tonne first of class Astute nuclear-powered attack submarine is already complete.
The forward end construction will join seven other sections of Ambush already being fitted out in the Devonshire Dock Hall, the largest shipbuilding complex of its kind in
According to BAE Systems, Astute-class submarines will be the most advanced and powerful the Royal Navy has ever operated and will play a key role in the
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