Glasgow Company to Build Nuclear Sub Periscopes

Glasgow-based Thales UK wins £330m contract to build periscopes, sensors and sonar for the Dreadsought-class vessels.

06:57 03 March 2020

Defence minister Baroness Goldie has announced that the government has awarded the £330million contract to build periscopes, sensors and sonar for Dreadsought-class vessels to Glasgow-based Thales UK. The periscopes – known officially as combat system masts – will be manufactured at Govan in Glasgow.

 

Baroness Goldie said: "What we do get across the piece is a very strong and steady supply of orders," she said.

 

"If you think recently the part we played in the two new aircraft carriers, the Type-31 frigates being now built by Babcock and that will involve Rosyth and shipbuilding at BAE on the Clyde sustained by the destroyer orders.

 

"So there's a lot happening and that's part of the steady drumbeat that the MoD wants to have resonating in Scotland."

 

Thales chief executive Victor Chavez said: "Having supported the deterrent since its inception, and with over a century of supplying periscopes to the Royal Navy, I am proud that our engineers continue to deliver cutting edge innovative technology at sites across the UK."