A team of Belfast employees have celebrated their contribution to the Royal Navy’s latest flagship vessel after the £3 billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth set sail.
Workers at the Thales site in the Northern Irish capital designed and manufactured one of the key assets protecting the new 65,000-tonne vessel – a missile system on the Navy’s Wildcat helicopter.
The lightweight multi-role missile (LMM) – referred to as Martlet by the Navy – has recently entered service at sea after completing live-firing trials with Wildcat manufacturer Leonardo.
It is already in service with other land-based UK armed forces and in the Middle East and Asia.
Belfast-built missile system onboard Royal Navy flagship
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