HMS Ambush (S120)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | March 1997 |
| Laid down: | October 2003 |
| Launched: | 2007-2008 (planned) |
| Commissioned: | 2010 (planned) |
| Status: | Under construction |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7,800 tonnes submerged |
| Length: | 97 m (323 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.3 m (37 ft) |
| Draught: | 10 m (33 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Rolls-Royce PWR2 reactor (with full submarine life core), MAN (Paxman) 1900 kilowatt diesel generator |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 7,000 nautical miles / 13 000 km (at economical speed) |
| Complement: | 98 officers and men normally, capacity of 109 |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Thales Underwater Systems Sonar 2076, Atlas Hydrographic DESO 25 depth-finding echosounder, Two Thales Optronics CM010 periscopes, Raytheon Systems Ltd Successor IFF system |
| Armament: | six 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 38 Spearfish torpedoes, UGM-84 Harpoon and Tomahawk Block III cruise missiles, naval mines |
HMS Ambush (S120) is a proposed Astute-class nuclear attack submarine of the Royal Navy. Ambush was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine (now BAE Systems Submarines) on March 17, 1997. She was laid down at Barrow-in-Furness on 23 October 2003 and is expected to enter service in 2010.
See HMS Ambush for other ships of the same name.
| Astute-class submarine |
| List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy |
