Maritime research
Qinetiq and the Ministry of Defence have signed a 15-year agreement worth £150m that gives the MoD and other government and commercial customers access to Qinetiq’s maritime facilities.
and the UK Ministry of Defence (
) have signed a 15-year agreement worth £150m that gives the MoD and other government and commercial customers access to Qinetiq’s maritime facilities.
The agreement, dubbed the Maritime Strategic Capabilities Agreement (MSCA), was announced by Baroness Taylor, minister for defence equipment and support, in front of Qinetiq’s ocean basin at Gosport, Hampshire.
The ocean basin is said to be the largest freshwater tank in Europe.
It is used to assess the manoeuvrability of scale ship and submarine models in different sea conditions. Adjacent to it is a 270m-long ship tank that is used to test the stability and propulsion of ships and submarines or the effectiveness of power-generating tidal turbines.
Additional Qinetiq facilities secured under the MSCA include a shock test facility at Rosyth, Scotland, which can assess the amount of pressure ships and submarines can withstand by subjecting their structures with forces equivalent to a Force-10 storm, and a hyperbaric medicine unit at Gosport used to treat decompression illness and other medical conditions.
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