Babcock opens skills centre on Devonport waterfront
Babcock has opened a Skills Centre at Devonport Dockyard able to support fifteen hundred technical staff and apprentices a year, and has broken ground on an Integrated Logistics Hub at Sherford.
Bluebottle maker opens Sydney plant for forty vessels
Ocius Technology has opened an engineering, production and maintenance hub for its Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessels in Sydney, together with a round-the-clock global operations centre.
Britain and France to lead Hormuz transit mission
Britain is co-leading planning with France for a Multinational Military Mission intended to give commercial shipping safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
Sealift outline case due this financial year
The Strategic Outline Case for the Strategic Sealift Future programme, which will decide how Britain replaces the ships that move the Army's heavy equipment, is intended to be completed before the end of this financial year.
HMS Protector towed home after propulsion defects
The Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Protector could not sail from Teesside to Devonport under her own power this month because of propulsion defects, and was towed instead so that engineers can work out what to do with her.
Type 31 costs rising in labour and the supply chain
Inflation is pushing up the cost of the Type 31 frigate programme across labour and the wider supply chain, and the Ministry of Defence is assessing what that does to the affordability of the programme as a whole.
Date no longer given for DragonFire on Royal Navy destroyers
The 2027 date for DragonFire on a Type 45 was given three times. Asked this week by what date it will be fitted, ministers referred back to an answer without one.
British ships defy Chinese warnings in South China Sea
Two Royal Navy patrol ships have finished a ten day exercise in the South China Sea alongside Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore, working with fifth generation fighters, a Singaporean submarine and New Zealand boarding teams.
Thirty-three British warships left service since 2010
Thirty-three Royal Navy warships have been taken out of operational service since 2010, of which eight have been sold, fifteen recycled and ten are still waiting to be disposed of.
Apprentices BAE and Babcock cannot take offered elsewhere
Strong apprenticeship applicants who cannot be offered a place by BAE Systems or Babcock will be put in front of smaller firms in the same communities.
