Europe's naval shipyards are as busy today as the navies they support. With naval competition returning, operational and capability focus switching back to high-end warfare, and navies looking to industry for help in rapidly embracing new technology and capability, shipyards are adapting business approaches, shipbuilding concepts, and infrastructure and skills, to enable continued support for customer requirements. Navies're-focusing of strategic and operational emphasis on high-end warfare means that ships, submarines, and maritime aircraft all remain a requirement. Different European shipyards bring different capabilities, in this respect: some build surface ships and submarines; others specialise in either/or.
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