27.09.2021, 08:30
Zitat:First steel cut on Type 31 frigate programmehttps://www.janes.com/defence-news/indus...-programme
Babcock has cut steel on the first of five new Type 31 Inspiration-class general-purpose frigates on order for the UK Royal Navy (RN).
A ceremonial cut for the first-of-class – to be named HMS Venturer – was performed at the company's Rosyth yard on 23 September. The event also saw the new assembly hall on site named as ‘The Venturer Building'. Babcock was selected for the Type 31 programme in September 2019, with a GBP1.25 billion (USD1.71 billion) contract for five ships signed in November that year. [...] The symbolic first cut of steel for Venturer was conducted at Babcock's new advanced manufacturing facility, a key part of the company's digital transformation at Rosyth. This includes panel lines with robotic welding capability, as well as other semi-automated manufacturing machines.
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