Why Britain's Best Submarines Can't Leave Port | Submarine Insights
HMS Astute stunned the US Navy. American commanders were "blown away" by what they saw. By 2024, not a single Astute-class submarine had completed an operational voyage that entire year. Britain built the world's quietest submarines. Then forgot how to keep them at sea. 📌 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: - How HMS Astute outperformed America's best submarine - Why Britain had to call in American engineers to build their own subs - The single facility bottleneck crippling the entire fleet - The 7-year refit nightmare with glued-on bolt heads - Why Britain may have zero attack submarines operational - What AUKUS means for the future of British submarines 📌 CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Exercise That Shocked America 02:10 - The Falklands Lesson 03:30 - Britain Forgot How to Build Submarines 05:00 - Calling in the Americans 07:30 - The Devonport Bottleneck 09:20 - HMS Vanguard's 7-Year Nightmare 10:50 - Glued Bolts and Hidden Defects 12:20 - The Cursed Submarine 13:10 - The Personnel Crisis 14:20 - The AUKUS Problem 15:40 - Can Britain Recover? 🔔 Subscribe for more submarine and cruise insights @blueinsidertv #submarine #royalnavy #military #britain #astute #navy #defense