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The UK's newest nuclear submarine has successfully submerged for the first time at BAE Systems in Barrow, Cumbria.

His Majesty King Charles III has visited BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness to welcome the country's newest attack submarine into the Royal Navy.

The UK’s BAE Systems and Canadian company Cellula Robotics have signed a 10-year exclusive agreement to continue working together on Herne, a new autonomous submarine developed specifically for military use, and have announced that they expect to deliver a market ready craft for customers by the end of 2026.

A new report has outlined the growing positive impact that Cumbria’s position as the UK’s home of submarine building is having on the area.

BAE Systems has opened a new Leadership Academy in Barrow to deliver world-class educational facilities for designing and building Royal Navy submarines.

A cutting-edge new ship build hall transforming shipbuilding on the Clyde has officially opened at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Glasgow.

BAE Systems has officially opened a digital engineering hub in the West Midlands which will develop talent to support UK submarine building and provide 150 jobs in the local area.

HMS Glasgow, the first of eight Type 26 frigates being built by BAE Systems for the Royal Navy, has been officially named by Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales at a ceremony in the city in which it was built and named after.

The keel of the first of the UK’s new Dreadnought submarines, the most powerful and technically advanced boats ever designed for the Royal Navy, has been laid at BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness shipyard.