Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Medway underwent a successful planned maintenance period, delivered by BAE Systems and Royal Navy Ship Staff in Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida, from December 2020 through January 2021. Under the Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) contract BAE Systems provides whole ship availability management service to ...
Babcock International has supported the delivery of a significant milestone for the Armada Española (Spanish Navy), with its customer Navantia unveiling the first in class S-80 submarine in Cartagena Spain. The S-80 programme is the first modern submarine of Spanish design and will deliver a state of the art underwater capability ...
Anson, the fifth of seven Astute class attack submarines being built for the Royal Navy, has been launched at BAE Systems’ site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The 7,400-tonne nuclear-powered submarine, officially named at a ceremony in December, emerged from the Devonshire Dock Hall and entered the water for the first time. The ...
Writing for Defence Online, Richard Worthington, partner and patent attorney at European intellectual property firm, Withers & Rogers considers whether the recent Suez canal blockage could accelerate autonomous shipping innovation By 2030, it is estimated that the global autonomous shipping sector will be worth a staggering £111 billion and employ over ...