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Royal Navy submarine HMS ANSON arrives in Western Australia for maintenance with AUKUS partners.
Excalibur is a 12-metre experimental vessel. At a displacement of 19 tonnes, it’s the largest uncrewed underwater vessel ever trialled by the Royal Navy.
HMS Agamemnon, the sixth Astute Class submarine has successfully completed her first underwater dive.
A major milestone has been reached with tens of thousands of UK jobs and apprenticeships being supported through submarine building, as the Royal Navy’s newest attack vessel is commissioned.
The fin of decommissioned Royal Navy submarine 'Swiftsure' has been successfully cut and removed.
Barrow is a blueprint for how defence spending can boost communities up and down the country, the Prime Minister will say while on a visit to the town today.
New Submarine Availability Support Hub will support 100 new jobs, boost engineering capabilities and deliver on the Government’s Plan for Change.
A major deal, worth approximately £9 billion, has been struck with British firm Rolls-Royce to bolster support to the Royal Navy’s fleet of nuclear submarines, boosting national security and economic growth and delivering on…
The new Rolls-Royce Submarines site will enhance UK engineer capabilities and support the country’s nuclear deterrent, alongside supporting jobs.
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
New Government Command Paper sets out full scale of the UK’s national nuclear endeavour.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The partnership between British firm BAE Systems and ASC Pty Ltd could be worth billions of pounds, in a major boost to the UK's defence industry
One of the UK’s ballistic missile submarines – HMS VICTORIOUS – will be modernised under a new £560 million contract following an agreement with Babcock.
UK security will be boosted through a vast new contract – worth nearly £2 billion - that will ensure the long-term availability and resilience of critical naval assets.
Two contracts, worth collectively over £100 million, have been awarded to Babcock to support the development of the UK’s future nuclear deterrent.
Australian defence industry specialists have been embedded in UK industry to collaborate on next-generation attack submarines – SSN-AUKUS.
The longest ‘mega unit’ so far for Dreadnought Boat 1 has been moved into BAE Systems Submarines Devonshire Dock Hall.
Scottish Secretary will chair the roundtable at the UK Government's Edinburgh HQ as Thales Glasgow wins a multi-million pound defence contract.
Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and UK Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace have today visited the shipyard where the next generation of AUKUS nuclear submarines will be built for the Royal Navy.
Defence Minister Baroness Goldie hosted members of the North Atlantic Council and NATO Military Committee at HMNB Clyde.
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