Babcock, the UK’s
leading engineering support services company and the current in-service
support provider for the Navy’s MCGs, has teamed up with the
gun’s designer, BAE Systems, to provide an enhanced complex
equipment support service that will increase reliability and functionality,
and reduce obsolescence risk.
The collaboration brings together complementary and long-standing
expertise. Supporting the guns from specialised facilities, the Babcock
and BAE Systems approach offers the capacity, proven capabilities,
and infrastructure to safely and effectively run in-service support.
By playing to the strengths of Babcock and BAE Systems to overhaul,
design upgrades and manage obsolescence and in-service support, the
collaborative approach will look beyond the duration of the support
contract and aims to sustain up to all of the 20 in-service 4.5-inch
Mark8 guns until 2039.
Babcock complements the design expertise that BAE Systems brings to
the collaboration with its capability of providing more than a decade
of performance data, gathered during the current in-service support
contract and the experience of upgrading 13, 4.5-inch guns at bespoke
facilities at Devonport.
