UK's 1 Billion Pound Super Sub Unveilled

Impressive, but, that's a lot of money!

[link to www.express.co.uk]

The £1billion Artful edged out of the vast hangar where it was built and was lowered slowly into the BAE Systems dock in Barrow, Cumbria.

Despite weighing 7,400 tons and being more than 300ft long, it will be almost impossible for the enemy to detect thanks to thousands of tiny tiles which baffle sonar.

Artful has twice the firepower of the Trafalgar class submarines which attacked Libya three years ago and can unleash Tomahawk cruise missiles on targets up to 1,200 miles inland.

Artful can attack other ships and submarines with Spearfish torpedoes. Its surveillance kit is so sophisticated it can eavesdrop on phone calls and sit in the English Channel and hear a ship leaving New York.