Ship design, development and manufacture

Babcock is a key partner in major naval defence programs in the UK including the design, build, assembly and support of UK Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers and the design and build of the Type 31 Inspiration class frigates.

The state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing facility at our Rosyth site is a world-class digitally-led shipyard, with opportunities to roll out the blueprint and processes to export customers around the globe.

The proven, capable and adaptable frigate for global navies.

Babcock’s Arrowhead 140 frigate is a proven, capable and adaptable modern warship that will support navies to meet the maritime threats of today and tomorrow.

The Arrowhead 140 offers an unrivalled blend of price and capability delivering a flexible, long range, modular platform that can undertake a range of non-combat and combat missions, ensuring our war fighters have access to proven solutions to face our emerging threats.

Babcock’s Arrowhead 140 platform is the base design of the UK’s Type 31 frigates with further export contracts secured in Indonesia and Poland.