BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce have won defence contracts worth more than £2bn as the UK moves ahead with the £31bn programme to renew its nuclear deterrent amid heightened security tensions in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
Dreadnought, as the nuclear deterrent renewal programme has been named, is the biggest and most complex defence project the UK has undertaken — described as “the engineering equivalent of building a space shuttle”.
The new funding will enable work on the first of four new submarines, HMS Dreadnought, to progress to sea trials before its entry into service sometime in the early 2030s. It is part of a planned investment of nearly £10bn for the delivery phase of the programme.
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