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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

No more spiralling shipbuilding costs, vows navy chief

Type 26 frigateCommodore Steve Brunton, head of destroyers, said the Royal Navy now knows enough not to repeat the mistakes it made with Type 45 and supercarrier programmes.

Both projects ran over in cost by billions of pounds.

Now he said it is time to get tough and make contractors realise there is no 'open-ended cheque book' when it comes to the next generation of Royal Navy ships - the Type 26 frigates, still in the design stage.

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