This video report covers the opening of the Janet Harvey Hall, progress on the Type 26 frigates, the transformation of BAE’s Clyde shipyards, and the Skills Academy training the next generation of shipbuilders.

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“If you come across an a frigate with this level of capability, you’ll think twice about taking it on” — inside the build of HMS Glasgow, the Royal Navy’s submarine hunter.

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Overlooking the new Janet Harvey Hall on Glasgow’s River Clyde, Sir Simon Lister laid out a clear ambition for British warship production: pace, precision, and purpose.

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Royal Navy aircrew have returned from Norway after testing their submarine-hunting skills against German and Norwegian diesel-powered boats.

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At BAE Systems’ Applied Shipbuilding Academy, we saw how the Clyde isn’t just building ships—it’s building the people who make them. Clydebuilt, skill by skill.

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The state-of-the-art shipbuilding hall, officially named the Janet Harvey Hall, will allow two Type 26 frigates to be constructed side by side for the first time fully undercover.

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BAE Systems has officially opened a new digital engineering hub in Coventry, creating 150 highly skilled jobs and extending the reach of the UK’s submarine industrial base into the heart of the West Midlands.

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New Royal Navy ships currently under construction are still being built predominantly with foreign-sourced steel, due to limitations in UK production capacity.

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Britain isn’t backing down—Royal Navy vessel HMS Spey has conducted a second patrol in the South China Sea this month, this time near the Spratly Islands, alongside Australia’s HMAS Sydney, despite repeated Chinese warnings.

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The shared compartment design is a key element of the next-generation deterrent platforms for both nations, underpinning the Royal Navy’s continuous at-sea deterrence capability through the future Dreadnought-class submarines.

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