Sentence examples for astute attack from inspiring English sources

The Astute attack submarines will now come into service in 2008, compared with an original in-service date of 2005, while the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft will now come into service in 2009, six years behind schedule.

The main factors pushing up costs over the past year were a 12-month delay to the Watchkeeper unmanned aerial vehicle project and the decision to further extend the building programme for the new class of seven Astute attack submarines announced in last year's defence review.

Mr. Clegg, 43, seized the opportunity with a performance that matched his telegenic looks with astute attacks on Labour and the Conservatives.

Germany is renowned for its astute attacking ability but few would consider the fact that it has conserved only one clean sheet in its past nine fixtures – which came against the Faroe Islands – and it has now conceded six goals against opponents like Austria, Ireland and Sweden.

The construction of the Astute class attack submarines (SSNs), of which seven will eventually be built, has been troubled too.

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The paper went so far as to explain its favoured military tactics: "If the order was given, Astute class attack submarines using Tomahawk missiles could wipe out IS HQs in the city of Raqqah.

He said the Rolls-Royce reactors would power the Astute class attack submarines and the replacement for the Trident missile-armed Vanguard class, subject to final approval.

It will fund two reactors, one for the seventh Astute Class attack submarine and one for the first of the new nuclear deterrent submarines.

It's an astute approach.

The first of four Astute-class attack vessels, it is powered by a nuclear reactor that its builders say will need no refueling for 25 years.