
BAE Systems won a follow-on contract to produce 28 more payload tubes for the Navy’s Block V Virginia-class submarines with Virginia Payload Modules (VPMs), the company said Thursday The contract was awarded by General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD], one of the submarine prime contractors, in February and was disclosed this week. Virginia-class boats are built jointly by GD and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding with each company building some parts of each vessel then take turns building the…