Rolls-Royce

Nuclear Weapon Producers
United Kingdom: Rolls‑Royce is part of a joint venture in the United Kingdom to develop Dreadnought, a new class of nuclear-armed submarine. It is also involved in the maintenance of the existing fleet of Vanguard-class nuclear-armed submarines.

Company Profile

Company Profile

Rolls-Royce is a British company operating in the aerospace, defence and power systems markets.1 For the year 2022, Rolls-Royce reported revenues of £12.6 billion.2

Contact information

Rolls-Royce
Kings Place
90 York Way
London N1 GFX
England

Website: https://www.rolls-royce.com/
X: @RollsRoyce
LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/company/rolls-royce

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Nuclear weapons

Rolls Royce produces key components for the new Dreadnought submarines for the UK nuclear weapons system.3  In 2019, the UK government awarded Rolls-Royce Submarines with a contract worth nearly £480 million for nuclear propulsion power plants.4 Rolls-Royce is also part of the Dreadnought Alliance, a joint management team between the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) of the British Ministry of Defence, BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce.5 In May 2022, the Ministry of Defense announced it had awarded additional contracts for the Dreadnought programme of over £2 billion to Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems, as an initial investment within a planned overall total of £10 billion for the whole delivery phase.6

Notes

  1.  About (2024) | Rolls-Royce. Available at: About | Rolls-Royce.
  2.  ‘2022 Full Year Results’, Rolls Royce (2023), p. 6. Available at: Full Year Results Presentation 2022 (rolls-royce.com).
  3.  Submarines (2024) | Rolls-Royce. Available at: Submarines | Rolls-Royce.

  4.  ‘The United Kingdom’s future nuclear deterrent: the 2019 update to Parliament’ (2019) GOV.UK. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-united-kingdoms-future-nuclear-deterrent-the-2019-update-to-parliament/the-united-kingdoms-future-nuclear-deterrent-the-2019-update-to-parliament.

  5.  Alliance partners (2024) | Dreadnought Alliance. Available at: Alliance partners – Dreadnought Alliance.

  6.  More than £2 billion to boost UK submarine programme. Government of the United Kingdom, 9 may 2022. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-than-2-billion-to-boost-uk-submarine-programme.