UK NO LONGER CAPABLE OF RUNNING A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE PROGRAMME Retired Rear Admiral Philip Mathias says that the UK’s submarine fleet is facing an unprecedented situation from which it is unlikely to recover without radical intervention. Admiral Mathias was former Director of Nuclear Policy at the MOD. He said that delays in building new attack boats had reached record levels. The duration of patrols for crews for the Vanguard class which were 70 days during the Cold War are more than 200 days now. There was a shockingly low availability of submarines to counter the Russian threat in the North…
