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Naval Strategic Plan
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UK'S FUTURE WARSHIP PROGRAMMES
“The Naval Strategic Plan – The Next 15 Years (2000)” (www.rnreference.mod.uk/35/nsp03/home.htm)
Sets out the Royal Navy’s fleet requirements by 2015. The Defence White Paper
of December 2003, supports the vision in the Naval Strategic Plan.
The main elements of UK MoD’s warship demand over the period 2004-2015 is as
follows:
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Future Aircraft
Carriers – two ships costing £3 billion. |
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MARS (Military
Afloat, Reach and Sustainability) Fleet – up to 12 ships costing £2
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Astute
submarines. |
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Type 45
Destroyers. |
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Future Surface
Combatants. |
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Maritime Underwater
Future Capability (next generation submarines).
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| The following web pages introduce the naval ship
programmes and, where appropriate, outline a potential role for Barrow
shipyard's capacity and capability in each programme.
The Naval Strategic Plan and the Defence Industrial Policy need to be
followed by a Naval Shipbuilding Industrial Base Action Plan designed to sustain
the Industrial Base capabilities of the UK and North West
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