Babcock, the international defence company, has launched the Babcock Skills Academy, to enhance its workforce’s capabilities and ensure they are equipped to meet the evolving challenges its customers will face in the future. The Skills Academy uses a hybrid teaching model, that combines cutting-edge digital resources and hands on training, to ...
Thales Glasgow has been awarded a contract to provide periscopes to the next-generation of Dreadnought submarines. Thales has been providing the Silent Service with their ‘eyes’ since World War 1, this new contract will see Thales Glasgow deliver state-of-the-art ‘optronic masts’ – 21st Century successors to the iconic periscope – for ...
Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS TAMAR, one of the Royal Navy’s most modern ships, has visited the Solomon Islands. An OPV permanently deployed to support the countries of the Pacific region through UK defence engagement, this will be HMS Tamar’s inaugural visit to the Solomon Islands after her sister ship, ...
Babcock, the international defence company, and the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) have signed an initial contract for the multi-year refit of the second of the UK’s Vanguard Class nuclear submarines, HMS Victorious. The initial full cost recovery agreement, which will be replaced with a contract on the same terms for the ...