EEF comment on Type 26 Frigate announcement

Commenting on the news that that the Australian Government has selected the Royal Navy’s Type 26 Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate design for their SEA5000 programme, Stephen Phipson, Chief Executive of EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said: 

“This win for BAE Systems and the UK Defence industry is the result of years of hard work with Government and industry working in close partnership. The decision by the Australian Government confirms the UK leadership in advanced Frigate design and the strengthening of ties at both the industrial and Defence level between our two nations, British expertise helping to transform the Australian shipbuilding sector.”

Stephen Phipson was former head of the Defence and Security Organisation in the Department for International Trade