The United Kingdom has been left without a single attack submarine actively deployed at sea. The reason is the growing difficulty of maintaining the fleet's operational readiness, according to the UK Defense Journal, APA reports.
The media says that the Royal Navy's attack submarine fleet is struggling to deploy vessels at sea, and the problem has now reached the point where none of the available submarines are currently on patrol. As a result, the country has temporarily lost one of its most powerful naval capabilities.
A similar situation has occurred before, including recently. However, the trend suggests that most of the fleet now spends significantly more time docked than operating in open waters.
According to open-source tracking data, all five operational Astute-class submarines are currently at base. Two are effectively out of service in Faslane, two others are undergoing lengthy overhauls in Devonport, and the fifth recently returned from deployment.
"Only one boat of the entire force has returned from sea in the more recent weeks, and she now sits alongside at Devonport in the routine that follows a deployment rather than in any state of readiness, so that her return has done little to relieve the pressure on a service which has, in practical terms, run out of submarines to send out," the outlet states.
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