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BAE Wins GD Contract For Two More Virginia Payload Module Tubes

BAE Wins GD Contract For Two More Virginia Payload Module Tubes
USS Washington (SSN 787), a Virginia-class submarine, completing initial sea trials. (Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

BAE Systems won a General Dynamics [GD] contract for an undisclosed amount to produce payload tubes for two new U.S. Navy Block V Virginia-class attack submarines, BAE said Tuesday.For this contract, BAE will deliver two sets of payload tubes, each consisting of four tubes, for the Virginia Payload Modules (VPM) on future unnamed submarines SSN-804 and SSN-805. General Dynamics is one of the prime builders of the submarine along with Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding.VPM is an additional…

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