[Quote][/[So I am
pleased that VT Group and BAE Systems intend to form a joint venture in naval shipbuilding and support.]
VT & BAES will form a JV for the CVF programme only, does not include Trini & Tobs OPVs, FCS, MARS, or other export opportunities like T23's for Chile etc. This JV will be much the same as Type 45 which was itself prior to 2006 a seperate JV project, therefore no LFE here then. Like 45 there'll be a seperate project office probably in the south west, but I hear that on this project the designers will be co-located with the metal bashers so maybe they did learn lessons.
Congrats to BAES, VT, Thales and Babcocks just wonder where they'll build the MARS ships needed to support CVF as they can't build them in these yards whilst building CVF, maybe Poland, Romania or Korea?