Britains biggest defence contractor, BAE Systems, is to cut nearly 2,000 jobs in a significant blow to the UKs manufacturing sector and the governments industrial strategy.
The company, which makes the Eurofighter Typhoon jet and Britains nuclear submarines, said on Tuesday that up to 1,400 jobs would go at its military aerospace business over the next three years, along with a further 375 in maritime services and 150 at its cyber-intelligence business.
BAE aims to achieve the cuts, which are due to be implemented by 1 January, through voluntary redundancies where possible. It employs 83,100 people worldwide, including 34,600 in the UK.
Its aerospace bases at Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire, where the Typhoon is assembled, will…
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