Nato Submarine Rescue System takes maiden voyage

The Nato Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) has taken its first flight to join an exercise in Norway.

Costing £47 million, the NSRS can be deployed anywhere in the world at a moment's notice and its voyage shows it is fit for purpose.

Base manager Brian Grant said: "This is the final tick in the box so that Rolls-Royce, who operate the system, can prove to … the Ministry of Defence that they've got a working system."

It took two giant Boeing C-17 Globemasters and three Anthonoy 124 aircraft to load the system that launched to take part in Exercise Golden Arrow.

Mr Grant remarked he was looking forward to joining the scheme and arriving in Bergen.

The NSRS has been contributed to by many nations and is to be used in the event of a submarine in distress, at which point it would be deployed by air or road to the nearest port to join a mother ship.

Posted by Simon Williams