LONDON (Sputnik) – Great Britain will acquire four new Trident-class submarines for the country’s defense, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday.
“In the coming years, we’ll be launching the biggest aircraft carriers in our history, a new class of Hunter Killer submarines, new Joint Strike Fighter jets, improved Apache helicopters, a new fleet of drones, and because our independent nuclear deterrent is our ultimate insurance policy, this Government will order four new trident submarines,” Cameron said during a live broadcast Conservative conference.
The Trident system is deployed at the UK Royal Navy’s Faslane naval base in Scotland, the United Kingdom’s only facility capable of hosting the four Vanguard-class ballistic missile-equipped submarines.
British Defense Procurement Minister Philip Dunne has said the so-called "main gate" decision on Trident’s successor is expected next year.
