HMS Talent (S92)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Ordered: | 10 September 1984 |
| Laid down: | 13 May 1986 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1988 |
| Commissioned: | 12 May 1990 |
| Fate: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Surfaced: 4,740 tons Dived: 5,208 tons |
| Length: | 280.1 ft (85.4 m) |
| Beam: | 32.1 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught: | 31.2 ft (9.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor 2 × GEC turbines 1 × shaft pump jet 15,000 hp (11 MW) motor for emergency drive emergency retractable propellor 2 × W H Allen turbo generators 2 MW 2 × Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 hp (2.1 MW) |
| Speed: | Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 18 officers 112 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG Type 2072 hull-mounted flank array passive sonar Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passive search and attack sonar Ferranti Type 2046 towed array passive search sonar Thomson Sintra Type 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar Marconi Type 2077 short range active classification sonar Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar Pilkington Optronics CK34 search periscope Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope Type 2076 sonar scheduled from 2006 |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys RESM Racal UAP passive intercept CESM Outfit CXA SAWCS decoys from 2002 |
| Armament: | 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes (originally Tigerfish torpedoes) with 20 reloads UGM-84 Harpoon submarine-launched cruise missile Mines UGM-109 Tomahawk scheduled from 2006 |
HMS Talent (S92) is a Trafalgar class submarine of the Royal Navy.
She is the sixth of seven Trafalgar class hunter killer submarines, built by Barrow-in-Furness, HMS Talent was launched by HRH Princess Anne in April 1988 and commissioned in May 1990.
HMS Talent has just under took a Long Overhaul Period (Refuelling) at its base port in Plymouth and in March 2007 rejoined the active fleet, following a £386 million upgrade. She has been given a new reactor core and has been equipped with a new sonar suite the Sonar 2076. Sonar 2076 has the power equivalent to approximately 400 PCs and can precisely track the movement of small objects from hundreds of miles away.The Royal Navy describe SONAR 2076,as the most advanced Sonar in service with any Navy in the World. She has also been given the ability to fire Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missile TLAM.
She is affiliated with Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
See HMS Talent for other ships of the same name.
HMS Talents current commanding officer is Commander Charles David Lightfoot MSM
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