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Production on HMS PRINCE OF WALES, the second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier, has started at Portsmouth Naval Base – the future home of the Queen Elizabeth Class.

Glasgow, United Kingdom: DEFENDER, the fifth Type 45 destroyer built by BAE Systems, has today set sail from the company’s Scotstoun shipyard to embark on her second and final stage of sea trials off the west coast of Scotland, ahead of her handover to the Royal Navy later this year.

Future of British Manufacturing

BAE Systems and General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems have teamed to develop, demonstrate, and produce the 81mm Roll Controlled Guided Mortar (RCGM), an affordable 81mm precision mortar round. The companies have been maturing the guided mortar technology over the last 12 months and will be conducting tactical demonstrations early in 2012.