Manticore-class Submarine

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Class overview
Name: Manticore-class Guided Missile Submarine
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1992-1999 Portsdown Shipyards Consortium
1999-presentBAU Submarines
Operators: Belfras Royal Navy
Preceded by: Iain-class Submarine
Built: 1992-present
In service: 1995-present
Completed: 4
Active: 4
General characteristics
Type: Nuclear powered guided-missile submarine
Displacement: 9,300 tonnes (9,200 long tons)*
Length: 137.4 m (451 ft)
Beam: 13.5 m (44 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 1 x Sentennei S12G Reactor
  • 2 x Steam Turbines driving shaft
  • 1 x Battery backup propulsion drive
  • 1 x WATERCON Propulsion system
  • 2 x Deployable limited-speed propulsors
Speed: +30–35 knots (35–40 mph)
Range: Theoretically unlimited
Endurance: Only limited by food and maintenance requirements.
Test depth: 400 m (1,300 ft)
Complement: 130
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • IAS 220 Multi-purpose Mast array
  • KSI 110-E5 Intelligence System
  • RHEA Network
  • RN/BPS-22 Surface-Search Radar
  • RN/BLQ-12(V)3 SIGINT Array
  • Type 3520 Hull Sonar Flank Array (Passive)
  • Type 3525 Hull Sonar Active
  • Type 3525 Hull sonar, Mine/Obstacle Avoidance
  • Type 3300 Towed Array Sonar system, dual cable
  • RN/WLY-5 Acoustic Intercept/Torpedo Warning
Armament:

The Manticore-class submarine is a nuclear-powered guided missile submarine (SSGN) in service with the Royal Navy. Designed alongside the Chanson-class Attack Submarine to augment it's abilities at sea, the Manticore has since been updated with several modifications, including size and height extensions to bring it into the it's own class entirely. The Submarine was built and assigned to locations to best offer the widest area of coverage possible for Royal Naval operations throughout the globe.

Design

Armament

Ships in service

Name Number Builder Launched Comissioned Status
H.M.S Manticore SSGN-083 Royal Boat Guild 5 July 1993 30 August 1995 Active
H.M.S Martial SSGN-084 Royal Boat Guild 13 October 1995 2 January 1997 Active
H.M.S Mansfield SSGN-085 BAU Submarines 5 July 2000 20 December 2004 Active
H.M.S Merlin SSGN-086 BAU Submarines 5 March 2007 1 August 2009 Active