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 ...
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 ...
Babcock International Group has announced that it has been awarded a competitive contract from General Dynamics Electric Boat to manufacture 22 tactical missile tube assemblies as part of the common missile compartment (CMC) project for the UK Successor and US Ohio Class replacement submarine programmes. The work is part of the ...
The first of the UK’s new nuclear deterrent submarines has been named Dreadnought the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has announced. Marking Trafalgar Day, Mr Fallon made the announcement that the Queen has approved that ‘Dreadnought’, one of the most famous names in the Royal Navy, will become the lead boat and ...