UK’s £41 billion nuclear submarine project beset by delays, safety problems, cost overruns Times 25th April 2021, HMS Anson trundled out of Devonshire Dock Hall on Tuesday to a ripple of applause, before its 7,400-tonne bulk slipped into the water for the first time. The launch of the Royal Navy’s fifth Astute submarine was a milestone for the defence giant BAE Systems, which builds the boats at its cavernous factory at Barrow-in-Furness on the Cumbrian coast. But despite the fanfare, it was also a reminder of the growing risks that haunt this most sensitive corner of the defence industry. HMS Anson, a hunter-killer submarine powered by a nuclear reactor but armed with conventional weapons,