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UK SLBM Production

The United Kingdom's potential development of an independent capability to produce and maintain submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), including the costs, timeline, and industrial requirements.

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What would be the estimated cost and timeline for the UK to develop an independent SLBM maintenance and production capability?

to maintain and produce SLBMs would be a major national industrial project likely to take most of a decade and cost at least several billion pounds — and plausibly tens of billions — depending on ambi...