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Plus your underestimating the government's interest in the shipbuilding industry.The Thatcher government explicitly cut Swan Hunter out the T23 programme to focus on keeping Yarrow going. Cammell Laird was also sacrificed at this time and only Yarrow and Vosper Thornycroft would produce future warships (VT doing mine warfare and lower end stuff). Vickers Barrow built its last ships (amphib support) in the late 1990s and the site was wholly turned over nuclear submarines (which in fairness were its bread and butter by then).Then during the New Labour Years its was a free market free-for-all with all the defence companies in Western Europe up for grabs and every trying to merge with a competitor or buy their competitor and BAE Systems came out holding the bag having hoovered up the lot (it got VT in 2008). In those years industry was given free reign.It's worth noting the last batch of T23s were not ordered until 1996 (the previous trio were ordered in 1992). Being reliant on a couple of yard limited what could be done, basically all that was left was the facilities at Yarrow with VT keeping busy with MCMVs and export warships. Thankfully today there is enough growth in the sector that building more than two warship classes simultaneously is actually feasible. The failure of the Type 2400 (Upholder) on the export market (everyone seemed to prefer pimped-up Oberons for some reason) didn't help Barrow either. They might have been able to ride out the slack on export SSK orders but HDW had the world market sown up with the Type 209 at the time.To be honest I think many serious BAD decisions were made in shipbuilding, aviation and military vehicle construction sectors during 1986-2006 at the governmental and executive levels.
Plus your underestimating the government's interest in the shipbuilding industry.
The Thatcher government explicitly cut Swan Hunter out the T23 programme to focus on keeping Yarrow going. Cammell Laird was also sacrificed at this time and only Yarrow and Vosper Thornycroft would produce future warships (VT doing mine warfare and lower end stuff). Vickers Barrow built its last ships (amphib support) in the late 1990s and the site was wholly turned over nuclear submarines (which in fairness were its bread and butter by then).
Then during the New Labour Years its was a free market free-for-all with all the defence companies in Western Europe up for grabs and every trying to merge with a competitor or buy their competitor and BAE Systems came out holding the bag having hoovered up the lot (it got VT in 2008). In those years industry was given free reign.
It's worth noting the last batch of T23s were not ordered until 1996 (the previous trio were ordered in 1992). Being reliant on a couple of yard limited what could be done, basically all that was left was the facilities at Yarrow with VT keeping busy with MCMVs and export warships. Thankfully today there is enough growth in the sector that building more than two warship classes simultaneously is actually feasible.
The failure of the Type 2400 (Upholder) on the export market (everyone seemed to prefer pimped-up Oberons for some reason) didn't help Barrow either. They might have been able to ride out the slack on export SSK orders but HDW had the world market sown up with the Type 209 at the time.
To be honest I think many serious BAD decisions were made in shipbuilding, aviation and military vehicle construction sectors during 1986-2006 at the governmental and executive levels.
