The American Ohio-class submarines are 170-meter-long Trident missile carriers that can operate about 240 meters below sea level and carry 140 crew members at sea for up to 70 days before returning to the dock. The U.S. Navy currently has 18 Ohio-class submarines, four with cruise missiles and the rest with missile-powered ballistic missiles.
Meanwhile, the French Triomphant is slightly smaller at 138 meters in length. According to local media, the French navy sent two more of these submarines to sea last month from their base in Il Long on the North Atlantic coast in response to the invasion of Ukraine. This was the first time the country had deployed three nuclear submarines at once since the end of the Cold War.
“The United Kingdom has a strong history of building very advanced nuclear submarines. “The Royal Navy would say that the specifications they put in their submarines give them an advantage over the US Navy,” Tusa said.
“Australians have also chosen British design for their nuclear submarines. There are a number of reasons why they may have preferred British design, but in the end, if the American had his head and shoulders above it, they would have gone for it. “
As the threat heats up, eyes are on Russia’s capabilities and whether Britain can defend itself in the event of a nuclear war.
The Moscow Borey class is the fourth generation of Russia’s nuclear submarine fleet: 170 meters long and capable of carrying 16 missiles, it has the ability to dive to a depth of approximately 430 meters. Putin’s navy plans to supply a total of ten Borey-class submarines by 2027 as part of the country’s most comprehensive submarine program since 1991.
Tusa says: “In 2014, we thought the Russian army was superhuman. Now I think we’re wondering: really? Their performance was disastrous.
“Since the 1980s, every generation of Russian submarines has been getting better, but everyone I’ve talked to in the Royal Navy says we have the whip. Our boats are better, our crew is better, our sonar is better and our weapons are better.
He added: “I don’t think they brag and it’s not just a wish. They have long said that no Russian attacking submarine has ever been able to track one of our ballistic boats. They may have caught one on the sonar sometimes, but they never followed it. “
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