Astute-class submarine HMS Ambush successfully completed her six-month operational deployment and returned to her home port of HM Naval Base Clyde on Tuesday, October 6.
The hunter-killer submarine left Faslane in May to spend the summer conducting UK operations in addition to taking part in NATO activities and exercises.
HMS Ambush took part in NATO’s largest and most demanding Anti-Submarine Warfare exercise, Dynamic Manta 15, where it proved her fighting capabilities against five surface ships and seven maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters.
Ambush was one of a flotilla of seven submarines from the US, Spanish, Turkish, Greek, French and Italian navies, which stood against the surface ships of NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 2, led by the German frigate FGS Hamburg, in the Ionian Sea in September.
The submarine also made port visits to Gibraltar and Souda Bay in Crete, and became the first UK nuclear submarine to visit Limassol, where she hosted the Cypriot Defence Minister, several key Cypriot military leaders and the UK Sovereign Base Area Commanding Officer.
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