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Our Submarine Solutions business is the lead contractor for the groundbreaking Astute programme. This will create the largest and most powerful attack submarine fleet ever operated by the Royal Navy.

Construction is now well advanced on boats two, three and four  - Ambush, Artful and Audacious - while early work has begun on the fifth and long lead items have been ordered for the sixth. 

Astute is a huge project, but it's not the only thing we're involved in. We’re also carrying out concept design work for a new successor submarine deterrent platform, and we’re working on the two new 65,000-tonne Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers. Our focus here is on designing the vessels’ central modules, each of which will have a displacement of around 17,000 tonnes.