Royal Navy's new warships hit by damning setback over £140million assembly blunder

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The Royal Navy's new warships have been hit by a damning setback as the first two Royal Navy Type 31 frigates are out of sequence.Babcock International has confirmed the error will necessitate £140million in remedial work.Today, the defence contractor revealed in a trading update HMS Venturer bore the brunt of the construction errors, although identical mistakes were also made on HMS Active.The company said: "During the outfitting stage, we have experienced higher-than-expected levels of rework as a result of design changes and the long-term impacts of out-of-sequence build activity earlier in the programme." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Babcock added: "Whilst the number of such rework events is not entirely unexpected, the work is being performed in the later stages of completion and therefore is more complex and more costly."This latest setback brings cumulative losses on the Type 31 programme to more than £300million.The Type 31 vessels are intended to serve as the backbone of...

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B: The Royal Navy's new warships have been hit by a damning setback as the first two Royal Navy Type 31 frigates are out of sequence.Babcock International has confirmed the error will necessitate £140million in remedial work.Today, the defence contractor revealed in a trading update HMS Venturer bore the brunt of the construction errors, although identical mistakes were also made on HMS Active.The company said: "During the outfitting stage, we have experienced higher-than-expected levels of rework as a result of design changes and the long-term impacts of out-of-sequence build activity earlier in the programme." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Babcock added: "Whilst the number of such rework events is not entirely unexpected, the work is being performed in the later stages of completion and therefore is more complex and more costly."This latest setback brings cumulative losses on the Type 31 programme to more than £300million.The Type 31 vessels are intended to serve as the backbone of...