PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - UK Maritime Patrol Aircraft - An Urgent Requirement
Old 7th Oct 2015, 17:32
  #1592 (permalink)  
Heathrow Harry
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: London
Posts: 7,072
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
there was a report drifting around a couple of days ago that our Russian friends are going to upgrade some of their SSN's - presumably because they can't build enough new ones fast enough

but this will mean taking current kit out of service for some time - I think the report said they might drop to 9 active nuclear subs - not sure if this was SSN only or SSN + SSBN

If it's both its about the same force as the RN...................
Heathrow Harry is offline