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BARROW'S KEY ROLE IN THE UK DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL BASE
Barrow shipyard has a key role in the Defence Industrial Base of the UK. It:
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Designs, manufactures and commissions large naval ships such as the recent ‘HMS Albion’ and 'Bulwark' amphibious assault ships for the Royal Navy, as Prime Contractor.
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Designs and manufactures the Astute Submarine Programme, as Prime Contractor.
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Producers of medium calibre armaments for Joint Force use and export.
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Has embedded in it much of the UK’s naval shipbuilding expertise which is of crucial strategic importance in the long term. This includes warship lifecycle management expertise.
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 The UK Ministry of Defence faces a need to dramatically increase the UK’s labour force available to enable it to deliver an ambitious new warship and new submarine programmes and to de-risk such programmes as early as possible. At the same time the MoD needs to adopt a robust defence industrial strategy which bridges imminent work gaps by bringing forward naval design and shipbuilding work.
If Government Policy does not change, then the work gap will quickly become a precipice over which the UK's shipbuilding capability will fall, never to recover and the UK will lose its ability to design and deliver large warships. |
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