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RE: Super-submarine

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New Chinese Ballistic Missile Submarine Spotted
A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The new class, known as the Jin-class or Type 094, is expected to replace the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s.
The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site.

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Latitude: 54.108279°N Longitude: -3.224272°W

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The Royal Navy's newest super-submarine, Astute, was launched on Friday 8 June 2007.

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The Royal Navy's newest super-submarine, Astute, will be launched at 11am today by HRH Duchess of Cornwall at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow, Cumbria.
Astute is the first nuclear submarine to be launched in the UK for almost a decade. She has been built at BAE Systems Barrow shipyard under an initial £2 billion prime contract for three next generation submarines.
Construction, using the latest and most advanced naval engineering techniques, has been described as more complex than that of the space shuttle.

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