RUSI - Beyond Artful: Government and Industry Roles in Britain’s Future Submarine Design, Build and Support, Whitehall Report 3-07
'In terms of the UK’s strategic deterrent, the Government policy – supported by Parliament following a vote on 14 March 2007 – approved concept work for the successor to the current fleet of Vanguard classnuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs).
Often to the exclusion of wider policy debate, industrial issues formed a central point around which the discussion revolved, with focus ranging from the proposed seventeen year timescale for the production of a new SSBN (hereafter referred to as SSBN-F2), to the technical and regulatory challenges inherent in supporting the Vanguard class beyond a thirty year service life.
As one commentator observed, ‘the future of Trident … becomes less a matter of pure strategy and more a sort of country dance in which tricky political and industrial steps must be made at precisely the rightintervals.'
[Introduction, p1]
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