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News 2010
17/12/2010
Ambush's road to success
THE submarine started in 2003 is about to emerge into the daylight as SSBN 21 Ambush.
The pennant number stands for, in naval speak, Ship Submerged Nuclear 21. It is the 21st British hunter-killer class submarine, nuclear-powered but not nuclear armed.
Ambush will leave Barrow at the end of 2011 to join sister boat, the first-of-class HMS Astute, at the Faslane submarine base in Scotland.
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16/12/2010
Set to launch, our nuclear Leviathan: The enormous scale of the biggest submarine ever built in Britain
Her nuclear reactor could power a city the size of Southampton, she will never need refuelling and she can use her guided ¬missiles to pulverise an enemy more than 1,000 miles away.
Meet HMS Ambush, the Royal Navy’s newest hunter-killer submarine. The ‘super-sub’ is able to make oxygen and fresh water from ¬seawater, to keep the 98 crew — it has not yet been decided if this will include women — alive in time of crisis.
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16/12/2010
HMS Ambush: latest of Royal Navy's next generation of submarines
HMS Ambush, the second of the Royal Navy's new Astute class of nuclear submarines, is powered by a nuclear reactor the size of a dustbin.
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14/12/2010
HMS Albion assumes role of fleet flagship
Amphibious assault ship HMS Albion has assumed the role of fleet flagship of the Royal Navy.
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13/12/2010
Shipyard changes vital to tackle ‘challenging future’
CHANGES that will see Barrow shipyard integrated into a new BAE Maritime division in January are vital to tackle a “challenging future, says the defence firm.
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13/12/2010
Labour to launch review of defence procurement policy
Labour is to review its defence procurement policy, admitting that it "made mistakes" on military spending while it was in government.
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03/12/2010
Babcock Awarded Vengeance Planning Contract
Babcock has been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to commence the planning phase for the multi-million pound refit of Trident ballistic missile submarine HMS Vengeance, to be undertaken at Babcock's Devonport Royal Dockyard.
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29/11/2010
Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review
The timing behind the setting up of a National Security Council (NSC) could not be better for the United Kingdom. In an environment of severe financial crisis, it was widely known that Britain's desire to maintain high defence spending and huge forces but with little utility was really the case of a turkey voting for Christmas. Consequently, there have been a series of important events in the UK starting with Prime Minister David Cameron setting up the NSC. Lessons from the efforts of the British military in Iraq and Afghanistan seem to have led to the establishment of the National Security Council and it would not be difficult to guess where the inspiration behind this kind of a system comes from. This American-style division led by a National Security Advisor is expected to identify the British security needs and coordinate with all other departments in order to respond to them efficiently.
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25/11/2010
BAE Systems May Cut 365 Shipyard Jobs as Production Passes Peak
BAE Systems Plc, Europe’s largest defense company, may cut as many as 365 jobs in its Clyde, Scotland-based shipyards as production comes off a peak on projects such as the Type-45 destroyer.
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23/11/2010
HMS Vigilant LOP(R) achieves major milestone with successful completion refuelling
A major milestone has been achieved in the Long Overhaul Period (Refuel) (LOP(R)) being undertaken by Babcock on HMS Vigilant at Devonport Royal Dockyard, with the successful completion of refuelling last week, two years in to the LOP(R) programme.
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