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皇冠体育app MOD has awarded a 拢270 million contract to upgrade the Royal Navy鈥檚 Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes.

皇冠体育app Spearfish programme supports 60 jobs in Portsmouth where the torpedo is designed and manufactured with an additional 40 new skilled engineering vacancies being recruited for to work on the programme by BAE Systems.

皇冠体育app company also estimates that hundreds of jobs will be sustained in the company鈥檚 supply chain.

This year the MOD has already awarded BAE Systems a 拢600 million contract to run Portsmouth Naval Base and a 拢70 million Type 45 destroyer support contract that combined sustains more than 2,000 jobs in the Portsmouth region, including skilled engineering roles.

Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, said:

This contract award is good news for the Royal Navy, the UK and the city of Portsmouth where around 100 engineering jobs will be created or sustained.

Portsmouth continues to play a significant part in defence as illustrated by this contract award and has a bright future ahead of it thanks to recent investment such as the 拢600 milliion contract to run the naval base, sustaining thousands of jobs, and the upcoming 拢100 million of infrastructure work to prepare the city for the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers.

皇冠体育app Spearfish Upgrade includes a new warhead, a change to the fuel system to improve safety, full digitisation of the weapon and a new fibre optic guidance link to improve performance.

皇冠体育appy are carried by the Royal Navy鈥檚 Astute, Vanguard and Trafalgar Class submarines and can target both underwater and surface threats.

Once the torpedo has been fired Spearfish homes in on its target using sonar and will be controlled by the submarine after launch via the new fibre optic link.