Ministry of Defence officials have decided to halt plans for nuclear powered automatons that would have been able to sing like Susan Boyle, as a form of sonic warfare, intended to lull the enemy into a restful sleep, before blowing the crap out of them.
Professer Hans Kneesboomseedaisy, brainbox behind the Nuclear Subo Marine program is said to be disappointed but understands the sensitivity of spending money on untested robotic marines, especially in the aftermath of the crash of the first such prototype, off the coast of the idyllic Isle of Skye recently.
'Vee haf to be taking into accounts zee feelings of peoples who ist paying zee taxes unt financing my marvellous mechanical marines vis zee voice box of zee Scotch Singer' said the mad professor stereotype, 'Howefer, ist still being my dream, that one days, I vill be seeink vis my own eyes, an whole army of Nuclear Subo Marines'