Babcock International Group (Babcock), working with the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE), has reached the next significant milestone to fully dismantle a nuclear-powered submarine, Swiftsure, at its facility in Rosyth. As part of the UK’s demonstrator project, the company has recently awarded the recycling contract to KDC Veolia Decommissioning Services UK Ltd (KDCV). Babcock’s ...
Babcock has cut steel on HMS Formidable, the third of five Inspiration Class frigates the company is building for the Royal Navy at the Rosyth facility in Scotland, marking the official start of the ship’s build programme. Coming only 20 months after the steel cut ceremony for the second ship, HMS Active, ...
Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, in partnership with ST Engineering, a technology, defence and engineering Group has unveiled its 120mm Ground Deployed Advanced Mortar System (GDAMS) at DVD2024. Based on the world-leading technology of ST Engineering, the 120mm GDAMS is a vehicle-mounted, hinged mortar system developed to address ...
UK submarines will be able to go through maintenance work faster and therefore redeploy more quickly, following major upgrade works at a key naval base facility. The biggest submarine dry dock in Devonport, known as 9 Dock, has reopened today following a major refurbishment project worth £200M completed under a contract ...