1991年海湾战争打响,英国海军将“特拉法尔加”级攻击型核潜艇派到海湾参战,由于缺乏对陆地目标的精确打击能力,作战效能严重受限。与能发射巡航导弹的美军攻击型核潜艇相比,曾被英国军方视为先进的“特拉法尔加”级攻击型核潜艇未免显得“灰头土 When the Gulf War started in 1991, the British Navy dispatched a “Trafalgar” class attack submarine to the Gulf for fighting. Due to the lack of precision strike capability on land targets, operational effectiveness was severely limited. Compared with the U.S. attacked nuclear submarines that can launch cruise missiles, the “Trafalgar” attack nuclear submarines once considered by the British military inevitably become "despicable