Manticore-class Submarine

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Class overview
Name:	Manticore-class Guided Missile Submarine
Builders:	1992-1999 Portsdown Shipyards Consortium 1999-presentBAU Submarines
Operators:	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:	4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes with stowage for up to 16 weapons; 12 x VLS Container plugs capable of fitting 7 x Lance Missiles at max outfit per container SST-28B Huntsman Torpedo Mark 45 Multi-purpose Torpedo Mark 90 Mine

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.

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