MARITIME
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced that the first steel will be cut on the Navy’s next-generation frigates next summer. During a visit to BAE’s Govan shipbuilding yard, the Defence Secretary confirmed that work on the hull of the first of eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships will begin next summer. Work ...
Lockheed Martin has led the celebrations to recognise the 25th anniversary of the Royal Navy’s Merlin anti-submarine and anti-surface helicopter. An event held in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard brought together past and present members of the Ministry of Defence, Royal Navy and industry team in celebration of the milestone. Awarded in October 1991, the £2.2 billion Merlin ...
Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin MP and her French counterpart, Laurent Collet-Billon, have launched the next phase of a £117 million joint Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) programme in Paris. The MMCM programme will develop cutting-edge maritime mine warfare capability; a capability which will keep the UK and France at ...
Babcock, the UK-based engineering support services company, has been awarded a five-year contract, with the option to extend a further five years, to deliver submarine escape, rescue, abandonment and survival training (SMERAS) to the Royal Navy from a purpose-built facility at HMNB Clyde on the west coast of Scotland. The contract ...
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