According to the the defense management network reported on December 6, 2012, the British Ministry of Defense announced the grant bae Systems ? 46 million contract to maintain the new command system, the system for the British submarine navigation, intelligence gathering and to resist the attack.
According to the design contract, the Department of Defense want to get rid of the status of different combat systems use three different class submarines of the Royal Navy, and turn to change the use of all current and future submarines of the Royal Navy with a common combat system. The British Ministry of Defense said that the doing of great benefit to reduce training, maintenance and upgrading costs.
"Britain's submarine fleet is second to none, and plays a key role in protecting the safety of our waters, to safeguard the interests of domestic and foreign." Defense Secretary Philip Dunn said, "to ensure that we can maintain and develop this technology for the fleet as a whole, in years to come to be able to continue to provide first-class submarine combat capability. "
Department of Defense in charge of the submarine, Rear Admiral Simon Lister added: "with the ship or boat contains a number of important technical operational command system, either now or in the future, to keep our submarines are very important technical advantages of this contract will help on ensuring that the Department of Defense and the status of British Industry. "
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