HMS Artful (S121)
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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Artful.
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | March 1997 |
| Launched: | 2010 (planned) |
| Commissioned: | 2012 (planned) |
| Fate: | Under construction |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7800 tonnes submerged |
| Length: | 97 m (323 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.3 m (37 ft) |
| Draught: | 10 m (33 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Rolls-Royce PWR2 reactor (with full submarine life core), MAN (Paxman) 1900 kilowatt diesel generator |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 7,000 nautical miles / 13,000 km (at economical speed) |
| Complement: | 98 officers and men normally, capacity of 109 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Thales Underwater Systems Sonar 2076, Atlas Hydrographic DESO 25 depth-finding echosounder, Two Thales Optronics CM010 periscopes, Raytheon Systems Ltd Successor IFF system |
| Armament: | six 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 38 Spearfish torpedoes, UGM-84 Harpoon and Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles, naval mines |
HMS Artful (S121) (possibly S22) is a proposed Astute-class nuclear Fleet submarine of the Royal Navy. Artful was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine (now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions) on March 17, 1997 and is expected to enter service in 2012.
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