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At least six new warships will be built for the Royal Navy under the Defence Investment Plan, delivering the UK’s most advanced maritime air defence capability and keeping British shipyards working for decades to come.

The Common Combat Vessel will replace the current fleet of six Type 45 destroyers, with delivery expected from the early 2030s. Unlike its predecessors, the new warship will act as a control hub for uncrewed systems - extending the Navy’s reach, resilience and firepower without a proportional increase in crew or cost.

Due to be outlined in the forthcoming Defence Investment Plan, these new ships will replace earlier plans for a Type 83 destroyer. Rather than concentrating capability in a small number of large, expensive ships, the Royal Navy’s shift to a hybrid navy will mix crewed and uncrewed capabilities and be more suited to the pace and nature of modern warfare.

When in service, these CCVs will work alongside eight Type 26 and five Type 31 crewed frigates, as well as Type 91 uncrewed missile platforms, Type 92 uncrewed underwater sensing platforms, Type 93 Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles and Type 94 uncrewed sensor platforms, representing a once in a generation investment in new maritime capability.

• The Defence Investment Plan
  

  • Hybrid Navy Fleet: At least £1.3bn in a hybrid fleet, ultimately comprised of uncrewed missile platforms (Type 91), uncrewed underwater sense platforms (Type 92), extra-large uncrewed underwater vessels (XLUUV) (Type 93), uncrewed radar platforms (Type 94) and a future class of Common Combat Vessels (CCV). The Hybrid Navy will be connected by a Maritime Fighting Web, the maritime ‘edge’ to the Digital Targeting Web.
    
    By 2030, we aim to have brought the first large autonomous vessels of the Hybrid Navy into service, including a prototype uncrewed missile platform and XLUUVs, with payloads developed through AUKUS.

  50. From the early 2030s we will bring a new Hybrid Navy Maritime Air Defence system into service. It will comprise uncrewed missile (Type 91) and sensor (Type 94) platforms that will be distributed throughout our Maritime Task Groups, with a new Common Combat Vessel as the central brain, connecting and controlling the uncrewed elements. This system will eventually replace our Type 45 Destroyers, which are due to retire from 2035.

  https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... tment-plan

• Defence Investment Plan - Oral Statement
  
  https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... -statement