Sentence examples for submarine class from inspiring English sources

The replacement isn't so much the £31bn proposal for a new submarine class to succeed Vanguard and carry Britain's nuclear deterrent (although that's an important question for the company in itself), but more the identity of a successor to Ian King, BAE's chief executive, who has been in command since 2008.

Early in its sea trials in 2010, Astute - the first of the Navy's brand new submarine class of the same name - ran aground off the Isle of Skye.

The Skates were the first nuclear-powered submarine class with more than one ship built.

The submarine, a Type 039 Song-class diesel attack submarine — China's first fully indigenous submarine class —  shipped out just last month, making a stop in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, and marking the first time that a Chinese submarine had "openly visited a nation in the Indian Ocean".

"As far as the US is concerned there is no indication that the Navy believes nuclear submarines have been anything less than a stellar success and replacements for the major submarine classes are in the works".

In 1975, the Navy launched the anti-submarine Spruance-class destroyer, named in his honor.

Carlyle Thayer, of the Australian Defence Force Academy, notes that it has already deployed 31 of its 53 fast-attack submarines and three Ohio class nuclear submarines to the Pacific.For all the uncertainties in this debate, three things are beyond dispute.

The total force included two non-nuclear Sailfish class submarines and eight nuclear submarines.

India has decided to construct more nuclear-powered Arihant-class submarines and three more submarines of this class are under construction (dubbed S-2, S-3 and S-4),.

This resulted in the enormous Ohio-class submarine and the Trident SLBMs which the Ohio class carried.

"The intention is to replace the entire Vanguard class submarine system.