The Royal Navy’s newest £1.6billion submarine HMS Audacious, equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles, Spearfish torpedoes and 18,000 sausages, has travelled to the Mediterranean for its first Nato mission.
Audacious, among the most advanced and powerful nuclear attack submarine ever operated by the Royal Navy, is the fourth of seven new Astute-class subs with its sisters HMS Astute, Ambush and Artful.
The submarine was commissioned in September 2021 before undergoing two months of intensive…