Five more Type 26 frigates will be built for the Royal Navy, the Prime Minister has announced. Defense manufacturer BAE Systems has been awarded a £4.2 billion contract to build the five warships ...

Simon Lister, managing director of BAE Systems Naval Ships business ... generation frigates for the Royal Navy.” The other Type 26 frigates currently under construction include HMS Belfast ...

BAE Systems has begun construction of the fifth of eight Type 26 anti-submarine warfare frigates for the Royal Navy in a steel cutting ceremony at its Govan shipyard in Glasgow. This marks a ...

It is thought BAE Systems could be in pole position to supply the vessels, with the UK defence giant currently building a new ...

Steel was cut on HMS Glasgow - the first of the frigates being built at BAE's Govan and Scotstoun yards on the River Clyde in Glasgow - in July last year. The Type 26 is due to partially replace ...

Defence giant BAE Systems has won a Royal Navy contract worth almost £300m which will support more than 200 UK jobs.

BAE Systems, Babcock and Atlas Elektronik ... 26 warships which will start being delivered from the mid-2020s. The Type 26 frigates will be based in Devonport. The decision on where the Type ...

The two firms are the latest to add expertise gained on the UK’s Type 26 programme to ... has been commissioned by BAE Systems Maritime Australia to design and deliver the Integrated Platform ...