The new Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, announced the fourth Dreadnought submarine as HMS King George VI ahead of a special service at Westminster Abbey to recognise the Royal Navy’s Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD) over the past 50 years. Since April 1969, a Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine has patrolled every ...
Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has announced that construction has begun on the UK’s new nuclear submarines with the commencement of Delivery Phase I. The £1.3Bn of new investment is being undertaken with BAE Systems as part of the Successor project. The next phase of works has commenced, with the manufacturing work ...