Babcock has been awarded a 10-year contract to provide dry-dock maintenance for the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth class (QEC) aircraft carriers. The new £30m contract follows a previous maintenance period where Babcock completed the first docking for HMS Queen Elizabeth at the Rosyth site in 2019 and includes all routine maintenance ...
HMS Prince of Wales, the second of two aircraft carriers designed and constructed for the Royal Navy, has sailed into her home port of Portsmouth Naval Base for the first time. This marks an important and proud milestone for everyone who has worked on the Queen Elizabeth Class programme across the ...
The UK has taken delivery of its 14th F-35B Lightning II, which will take its place as part of the Lightning Fleet, set to operate from Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers and RAF Marham. Operated jointly by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, the F-35 Lightning jets will be able to ...
Thales has secured a seven year contract worth £100M to provide through-life support for communications systems of the Royal Navy’s fleet. The contract provides Thales with the responsibility to maintain, support and manages through-life the Royal Navy’s communications systems across the majority of the Fleet’s platforms, from the state-of-the-art systems aboard ...