New BAE Systems Defence Contract Boosts UK Nuclear Deterrent Submarine Fleet
The UK Government has awarded a new £5.9bn contract to BAE Systems funding critical work to progress the nation’s Dreadnought Class nuclear deterrent submarines towards
The UK Government has awarded a new £5.9bn contract to BAE Systems funding critical work to progress the nation’s Dreadnought Class nuclear deterrent submarines towards
His Majesty King Charles III has visited BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness on 22 September 2025 to welcome nuclear-power attack submarine (SSN) HMS Agamemnon into the

The keel of the first of the UK’s new Dreadnought submarines, the most powerful and technically advanced boats ever designed for the Royal Navy, has
Babcock has been awarded two further contracts for work on the UK’s new Dreadnought Class submarine worth a combined £121 million.
BAE Systems rolled out a huge section of HMS Dreadnought, the first of the next gen ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) for the Royal Navy…

Steel has been cut for the third Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), the future HMS Warspite.

Elbit Systems UK has been selected to support in the definition and provision of an integrated training solution of shore-based simulators and training aids for the Royal Navy’s Dreadnought Crew Training (DCT) programme.
The adage that stealth is a submarine’s main defense is true today and tomorrow. Speed, depth and countermeasures can all help a submarine escape, but

Northrop Grumman Corporation is continuing production of Launcher Subsystem hardware in support of the Columbia and Dreadnought common missile compartment (CMC) program. The company was awarded an additional $69 million not to exceed contract modification in support of the program in March of this year.

Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence company, has been awarded a multimillion pound contract extension to manufacture a further 18 tactical Missile Tube Assemblies (MTAs) for General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB).