Vanguard class UK nuclear submarine
Sophie Huskisson – Daily Mirror June 1, 2025
Keir Starmer will today announce major plans to almost double the UK’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet.
The Prime Minister will set out the building of 12 new attack submarines as part of the AUKUS programme, a security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US.
He will also announce a major £15billion investment in the UK’s nuclear warhead programme.
The PM will make the announcements as he unveils the Government’s new Strategic Defence Review (SDR). The externally-led review is expected to recommend the Armed Forces move to warfighting readiness to deter the growing threats faced by the UK.
The UK currently has five Astute class attack submarines, which are on track to become a fleet of seven warships in the near future. These will be replaced one by one with the new SSN-AUKUS attack submarines from the late 2030s. A further five new submarines will take the total to 12.
A major expansion of the industrial capabilities at Barrow and Raynesway, Derby, will see a new submarine built every 18 months in the future. These will all be built by the UK and operated by the Royal Navy.
Any possible Australian submarines committed in the future will be in addition to this and would be supported by the UK and US navies.
The Astute class submarines cost £1.6billion per warship so the new AUKUS commitment is expected to cost multiple billions of pounds.
The UK nuclear warhead programme relates to nuclear-armed submarines, which are warships containing nuclear missiles. They are different to nuclear-powered submarines, which are not armed, but have a nuclear reactor to generate power, allowing them to operate for extended periods, at high speeds and with stealthy quietness.
The programme involves the building of warheads, which are the front part of a bomb or missile that contain explosives. The UK has four nuclear-armed Vanguard Class submarines, which each contain Trident II D5 missiles carrying UK nuclear warheads.
The UK is also in the process of replacing the Vanguard class with four new Dreadnought class submarines and the warheads themselves.
The Ministry of Defence said the submarine announcements will together support 30,000 highly skilled jobs across the country well into the 2030s, as well as helping to deliver 30,000 apprenticeships and 14,000 graduate roles across the next decade.
The investment will also back the Government’s commitments to maintain the continuous-at-sea nuclear deterrent, build a new fleet of Dreadnought submarines and deliver all future upgrades.
The landmark SDR will today set out 62 recommendations, which the government is expected to accept in full tomorrow. Significant investment in the UK warhead programme this parliament and maintaining the existing stockpile are among the demands.
The Prime Minister earlier this year announced the UK would increase its defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, with an ambition to raise it to 3% in the next Parliament.
In an event launching the SDR today, the PM will say: “From the supply lines to the front lines, this government is foursquare behind the men and women upholding our nation’s freedom and security.
“This Strategic Defence Review will ensure the UK rises to the challenge and our Armed Forces have the equipment they need that keeps us safe at home while driving greater opportunity for our engineers, shipbuilders and technicians of the future.”
Defence Secretary John Healey said: “Our outstanding submariners patrol 24/7 to keep us and our allies safe, but we know that threats are increasing and we must act decisively to face down Russian aggression.
“With new state-of-the-art submarines patrolling international waters and our own nuclear warhead programme on British shores, we are making Britain secure at home and strong abroad.”
What is expected in the Strategic Defence Review?
In response to the Strategic Defence Review, the Government’s commitments will include:
- Getting the armed forces to a stage where it would be ready to fight a war
- Boosting weapons and equipment stockpiles and making sure there is capacity to scale up production if needed in a crisis or war
- £1.5billion to set up at least six munitions factories
- Buying up to 7,000 UK-built long-range weapons in a move due to support 800 defence jobs
- Setting up a new cyber command and investing £1billion in digital capabilities
- More than £1.5billion of additional funding to repair and renew armed forces housing
- Boosting recruitment for Britain’s armed forces – with the number of cadets increasing by 30%
WW3 will start long before Nazi UK builds its next submarine.
The MIC is one of two mechanisms that aid the City Crime Cartels.
Military spending doesn’t damage CCCs business operations, it’s just easy money, or debt. The other is immigration. God forbid that the Nazis invest in widget production so sheeple can buy them, but that would damage the CCCs. Debt equals bank and corporate profits, because it’s imported.
RVELATION CHAPTER 18.
Oh dear… ‘Rum & Buggery’ is BACK..
as Semen Starmer goes ALL-IN on “Hello…ooo…oo..o Sailor!” 😘
Many more cold, hungry and poor Brits, all left wondering what’s left of this country worth fighting for? Maybe war against Russia is just a threat not really intended to go hot, the threat just being the means by which they can stop paying for the welfare of society–schools and stuff–so they can they can divert big welfare payments into the accounts of the privileged in the guise of lucrative arms contracts. For ordinary Brits they must just jump through hoops at the Jobcentre, while the rich get paid through the stock markets. No hoops. Not even a signature required.
When millionaires and billionaires are the only people left with money the billionaires will go after what the millionaires have got and only the uber-wealthy will survive the Great Depression II. The ordinary rich will learn what it’s like to be poor, after hyperinflation inflates their few million to near-worthlessness.
Sunday livestream 1 June 2025Russia/Ukraine false flag event explained: US is out, war between Russia and Europe! (~47:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFW5jFAQUs
Russia’s Pearl HarborSo what was Pearl Habor? Henry Makow: “Oct 7, 2024 was a typical Zionist false flag in the tradition of Pearl Harbor, USS Liberty and 911.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/russias-pear-harbor/
https://henrymakow.com/2025/05/may-25—hamas-attack-oct-7-wa.html
How can they afford this?…Everyday the Jewish controlled media is talking about the shortage of money.
There is still the third world war to fight most likely with Russia and China….plus of course Iran….
Don’t expect the MSM to address any of these questions!.
SURELY they’re not planning to keep the lying cnut Starmer as PM.
As for Farage…..no one trusts the bastard…..time and again he demonstrates what a pack of cunts they are…..Farage with his Muslim millionaire buddy and Starmer with his Asian Fudgepacker fiend billionaire pal.
And the jews running the whole scam.
Britain is entering the last stages of a Jewish Occupied Nation… ..
Its quite obvious Waste Whitey III is coming soon. Everyone was doing the same arms buildup in the years prior to Waste Whitey I & II.
paul fuller
uring the cold war jewisg russia was the thtreat
but now after the fall of communism
i was on 24 hour call at the time
awaiting events for war
the jews of russia against the jews of the USA and the jews of the UK
but since russia broke away from the jews everybody is out to destroy it
god bless iran and tussia especially the houthis !
If my calculations are correct, then the combined spending on 12 new submarines and intensified nuclear warhead production amounts to £34,200,000,000 (34 billion, 200 million.) That’s an awful lot of money. Especially so, while the British Army numbers just 71,151 fully-trained personnel.
What discernible strategic value can there be, in commissioning nuclear armed submarines that won’t be completed until the late 2030’s? (If the author is correct with her dates.)
The stated claim is that the SDI serves to counter a “growing threat” from Russia but Australian involvement insinuates a threat from a future military compact between China and Russia. The UK surely can’t be considering patrolling Vladivostock’s naval bases and shipyards?
Perhaps, the UK intends to police the Barents sea and use its nuclear missiles in closer proximity to Russia. Perhaps, the purpose is deep sea infrastructure sabotage. Perhaps it’s both. Either way, it will not make Britain any the safer. Quite the opposite. Poking at an irascible bear isn’t wise. If there is indeed a threat from Russia then it’s one we’ve brought upon ourselves (or our leaders have, on our behalf.)
Russia has hypersonic ICBM’s with nuclear warheads and ramjet engines which accelerate to 600 mph and can reach the UK in 20 minutes. Russia has such an arsenal of hypersonic nuclear missiles that it would make little odds if a few were intercepted and neutralized. They’d keep coming.
Russia also has advanced submersible attack drones, so called “submarine killers” capable of discharching nuclear torpedos and neutralizing the entirety of the UK fleet.
The Russian High Command must be chuckling through their handlebar moustaches as they swig vodka. We’ve just publically revealed to them the general outline of our future strategic defense plans.
Who in their right mind would go fight a war for filthy trash like Starmer? He’d have trouble trying to find someone who didn’t want to hang him!
just get rid of carl ” stalin” jones
the little shit arse
fullerangus
Yid bankers/oligarchs/rabbis still rule Russia–they’re all in on it
Sure, the puppets in western governments, these maniacs, want to go to war. But no one else wants anything to do with another deadly world war. If western governments want to declare war against Russia, they should all be overthrown by the people.
“The Ministry of Defence said the submarine announcements will together support 30,000 highly skilled jobs across the country well into the 2030s, as well as helping to deliver 30,000 apprenticeships and 14,000 graduate roles across the next decade….”
That’s OK then, its providing jobs!
NO MENTION OF THE BENEFITS TO SHAREHOLDERS THOUGH !!!
While the article delineates nuclear powered from nuclear warheads, the two are often conflated in peoples’ minds.
So two major selling points:
1/ Flag waving for the beer drinkers and soap fans.
2/ Jobs for the beer drinkers and soap fans. Although I might argue they are essentially “make work” jobs that distribute wealth as wages in useless work to prevent folk from recovering their fair share from the commonwealth and engage in useful fulfilling and meaningful work. I thoroughly recommend the book “Bullshit Jobs”; and this designation of course applies to not only “defence” jobs…
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The major contractor for British nuclear powered submarines is BAE. Not the only one of course. Rolls Royce are another.
According to ChatGPT, the principal institutional shareholders of BAE Systems include:
Capital Research & Management Co. (World Investors): 7.39%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.: 4.90%
Invesco Asset Management Ltd.: 4.77%
Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC: 4.08%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.: 4.03% .
ChatGPT gives in respect of Rolls Royce:
Causeway Capital Management LLC: 5.00%
Harris Associates LP: 5.00%
Massachusetts Financial Services Co.: 4.95%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.: 3.68%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.: 2.87%
Capital Research & Management Co. (Global Investors): 2.81%
WCM Investment Management LLC: 2.42%
And notes:
“Collectively, institutional investors control approximately 77% of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, indicating significant influence over the company’s strategic direction…”
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Those who have watched the documentary by Tim Gielen, showcased by The Truthseeker, “Monopoly: Who Owns The World?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZV5EesNNI
will remember his analyses pertaining to these institutional investors who he understandably infers are the Rothschild et al.
TPTB disguise their ownership through private organisational ownership of public listed companies.
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Whether one accepts the existence of nukes as “things”, many of may share the idea of the essential redundancy of many legacy weapons. For one thing they are useless against economic migrant boats.
Armaments are sold to the public and maybe the lower to middle ranks of the establishment as necessary for “defence” against Russia? China? Nations whose leadership groups have, I’m sure, connections to international capital as their participation in the Scamdemic – among other things – demonstrates.
So given the pretext and the “deployment” in the Orwellian theatre of Oceania against Eurasia or Eastasia, one might ask again where is the money really going?
(And for readers of my comment, I recommend ChatGPT with the usual caveats. I believe just like YouTube, more censorship of its neurons may be on its way. Rense carried an article about ChatGPT being “honest” about Gaza, but unfortunately, its was linked to the UK censored BitChute.)
They’ll build a bunch of over-priced war machines and stick the tax-paying working stiff with the bill, at compound interest so Shlomo gets his extra cut, of course.
@ Stephen … you stated, “If western governments want to declare war against Russia, they should all be overthrown by the people.” Nice sentiment but western governments declared war on their own citizens and still weren’t overthrown by the people, so you certainly shouldn’t expect that to happen if war is declared on Chabad Vlad and Russia. “The people” won’t do jack-shit. Hell, in the Jewnited States there are plenty of drooling dumb-f*cks actually looking forward to going to war with Russia and whomever else Shlomo and the Satanic Tribe from Way Down Under tells them to.
Simon Smith back again, which is good. Another one with absence is Guy Reid-Brown
Thank you for the kind words Lewis 😉
After all the analysis and sometimes heated discussion I always believe that just a little kindness spread around is all that it takes to make the world a better place, although I’m often guilty of not doing so myself 🙂
Tell you what you wankers wanting Carl Jones banned of here. Why don’t you F..k off somewhere else and whinge bitches. I like what he writes as well as Chesterton, Yukon Jack etc. By the look of it you can’t put 2 sentences together without whining, Wankers get rid of them Rixon
Mohandas Gandhi said ” kindness is more important than wisdom.” I’ve thought about that, quite a lot, over the years and although I’m still not convinced that it’s true, the spirit of kindness is nonetheless transcendent.
I’ve been away for a while too. It’s good that your back, Simon. This site needs minds of your calibre.