[miliantnutcase]

It would be interesting to see how she stacks up against Seawolf, and Virginia class. Probably more comparable to Virginia- Seawolf was so over the top powerful and expensive we could only afford a couple. I don’t think Britain could field anything as expensive, especially with all the cuts the Royal Navy has been taking.

[sukhoi-30mki]

One thing neat about the Astute(& the SeaWolf) are the number of their torpedo tubes.The Virginias have only 4,while the Astutes have 6 & Seawolf’s have 8.Nothing to get worked up about,but the latter 2 boats would have a better salvo launch capability for torpedoes.Comes in handy while taking out China’s aircraft carriers!!