The United Kingdom plans to build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and increase military spending in response to threats from Russia and Trump.
The United Kingdom will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a boost to military spending designed to send a message to Moscow — and Washington.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain “cannot ignore the threat that Russia poses” as he pledged to undertake the most sweeping changes to Britain’s defenses since the end of the Cold War more than three decades ago.
Personally I would instead consider how the recent advances in drone technologies could be applied to underwater operations and/or water-based launch platforms.
Nuclear submarines feel like a relic of the cold war at this point.
Such things have to be wire guided, or autonomous. Subs have really good wire deployment systems, so it’s not something out of the question, but water blocks radio signals quite effectively.
They’re also very costly and take a long time to build.
**a stealth submarine receives a long wavelength communications about an enemy craft due to enter its area the next day. she changes course towards the kelp forest it passed earlier, knowing the risk of prop entanglement. Nothing her crew can’t handle. She notices that she has developed a certain liking to the flavour now, as she begins grazing on the long slimy leaves.
Immediately her internals begins to work at dehydrating, digesting and then producing the derived materials which feed directly to an intricate set of machines that weave back and forth, materializing a small fleet of self guided swim drones that will soon find themselves swimming towards the unsuspecting enemy soon.**
Robo-dolphins!
They could look into launching drones from submarines instead of torpedoes.