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News 2010
24/08/2010
Royal Navy's most advanced destroyer sets course into service
While appearing at Portsmouth Navy Days the first of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 Class destroyers, HMS Daring, was declared formally available for tasking on Saturday 31 July 2010.
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20/08/2010
UK may axe carriers, Trident safe -defence source
Scrapping orders for two new carriers would save billions
* No plans to scale back Trident nuclear missile system
* Tornado combat planes seen retired by 2020
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18/08/2010
Former defence boss angry at BAE Systems Barrow Trident row
A FORMER Labour defence secretary has blasted coalition government ministers George Osborne and Liam Fox for the Trident submarine replacement row.
The argument is casting a question mark over future sub orders for Barrow.
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17/08/2010
Astute hits problem with new anchor on sea trials
THE Royal Navy and BAE have downplayed a national newspaper claim that Barrow’s first Astute class submarine hit a serious problem on its sea trials.
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02/08/2010
Like for like renewal of Trident will come at expense of conventional forces
The UK's current commitment to maintain a nuclear-armed missile submarine on deterrent patrol at all times (Continuous At-Sea Deterrence, or 'CASD'), is driven as much by institutional and political momentum as by strategic necessity, and plans to order a new generation of submarines after 2015 now threatens to be at the expense of further reduction in conventional forces according to a new report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
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02/08/2010
BAE Systems submarine Audacious looks the part
TRAFFIC was brought to a halt by a huge section of submarine.
The 800-tonne section brought traffic to a standstill yesterday and dwarfed houses as it was moved 400-metres along Bridge Road in Barrow.
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29/07/2010
Submarine part moved through Cumbrian town
Traffic came to a standstill as an 800-tonne section of submarine was moved along a street in a Cumbrian town.
The Astute class vessel Audacious is being built at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow.
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28/07/2010
Shipbuilding resumes at Birkenhead's Cammell Laird
Ship building has returned to the banks of the River Mersey, as work begins on an aircraft carrier at Cammell Laird.
More than 350 people are working on the HMS Queen Elizabeth, at the Birkenhead ship yard. It secured the £44m Ministry of Defence contract in January.
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21/07/2010
Farnborough International Air Show
Speech delivered by Secretary of State for Defence at the Farnborough International Air Show on Tuesday, 20 July 2010.
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19/07/2010
Britain's biggest warship uncovered
A wide-angle lens can barely do justice to the scale of latest aircraft carriers being built in Glasgow.
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