Sentences with phrase «successor nuclear submarines»

Britain's successor nuclear submarines will only have eight missiles onboard, but last week the Ministry of Defence announced that it is to build submarines which have the capacity for 12 tubes.

The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) claimed that decisions made in order to save money in the short term, like slowing the production of the Successor nuclear submarine, added an extra # 200 million to the overall cost of the project.

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An announcement is imminent on the successor submarines carrying the nuclear deterrent, according to Lord Hennessy, the historian and member of the British American Security Information Council's cross party Trident Commission.