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 ...
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 ...
A week long exercise in the skies and waters above and around Gibraltar has successfully completed. Eleven members of the Submarine Parachute Assistance Group (SPAG) conducted over 20 parachute jumps from the back of an RAF Hercules transport aircraft into the Mediterranean, during the day and at night. Watch one of the ...
The Scottish Secretary has reiterated the commitment to redevelop HM Naval Base Clyde. On 22nd August, Scottish Secretary David Mundell visited the UK Submarine Service’s future home, HM Naval Base Clyde, to reiterate UK Government commitment to redeveloping the base. More than a billion pounds is being invested by the UK Government’s ...