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News 2012
12/03/2012
Barrow MP hits out over trident boast
BARROW MP John Woodcock has criticised his Lake District counterpart for claiming to have “kicked Trident into the long grass”.Mr Woodcock responded: “Families uncertain of their future will be dismayed to hear a local MP boasting that he and his fellow MPs ‘fought like tigers’ to put thousands of jobs in South Cumbria at risk.
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12/03/2012
trident technology updates in US Defence budget
The largest technology upgrade program on the DOD's agenda for next year is a proposed $1.22 billion U.S. Navy initiative to upgrade the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
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12/03/2012
HMS VENGANCE SAILS INTO PLYMOUTH
HMS Vengeance isarrived 2 March at Devonport to be re-fuelled and refitted.Vanguard is the fourth submarine to undergo a Long Overhaul Period (Refuel) at Devonport since 2002.
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12/03/2012
PIONEERING New Submarine Returns To Clyde
HMS Astute arrived back on the Clyde after a 142-day deployment to America for her most important series of sea trials yet.
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12/03/2012
bAE TO CREATE 280 JOBS AT bARROW
BAE Systems Submarines is to create 280 jobs at its Barrow yard due to "significant progress" in submarine programmes in the last 12 months,
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24/02/2012
Mod tanker offer from Italy rejected
A leaked letter has revealed Italian firm Fincantieri told Defence Secretary Philip Hammond that it would construct a vessel from scratch in a UK shipyard
Ministers snubbed a defence company’s pledge to build one of the Royal Navy’s new £125million tankers in Britain – instead handing the work to South Korea.
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24/02/2012
MARS tankers
A new generation of 37,000-tonne tankers is to be ordered for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) to support future Royal Navy operations around the globe.The new Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) tankers will maintain the Royal Navy's ability to refuel at sea and will provide fuel to warships and task groups.
They will support deployed amphibious, land and air forces close to the shore, will be able to operate helicopters, and are planned to enter service from 2016, replacing existing Royal Fleet Auxiliary single-hulled tankers.
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06/02/2012
BaeSystems apprentice intake at Barrow shipyard announcement welcomed
Furness Enterprise today welcomed BaeSystems announcement that it will create 136 apprentice posts at the company's submarine building business in Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria as part of a national plan to recruit 265 apprentices.
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04/02/2012
Royal Navy sends Nuke sub to Falklands
THE Prime Minister has personally sanctioned the deployment of one of Britain's most advanced nuclear submarines to the Falklands amid heightened tensions with Argentina
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04/02/2012
HMS Lancaster returns to sea
HMS Lancaster has returned to sea for the first time in 16 months following a major upgrade.3 Feb 12 Source Ministry of Defence
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