BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions was a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems , based at two shipyards on the River Clyde in Glasgow and BAE Systems ' Filton offices . It was responsible for the company ' s surface surface warship design , build and support activities . It was originally established as a purely surface shipbuilder , BAE Systems Naval Ships , from the split of BAE Systems Marine in 2003 ; before being renamed Surface Fleet Solutions in 2006 , upon combination of BAE Systems ' surface shipbuild interests with the naval division of BAE Systems Customer Solutions & Support . On 1 July 2008 it was merged into BVT Surface Fleet , a joint venture between BAE Systems and Portsmouth - based VT Group , which subsequently became BAE Systems Surface Ships in 2009 . History . When BAE Systems was created in 1999 the three former Marconi Marine - owned shipyards at Barrow - in - Furness and Glasgow were vested in BAE Systems Marine . In 2003 BAE Systems Marine was split into two separate subsidiaries ; the two Glasgow shipyards at Scotstoun ( formerly YSL ) and Govan ( formerly Kvaerner Govan Ltd ) were transferred to BAE Systems Naval Ships . The third yard at Barrow - in - Furness became BAE Systems Submarines . This reorganisation was " to provide a focus on the UK and export surface warship building market . " On 1 January 2007 BAE Systems Naval Ships was merged with the naval section of BAE Systems Customer Solutions & Support to become BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions . CS & S Naval provided maintenance , repairs , minor and major refits for naval vessels . Past projects include reactivation of the Upholder class , now reactivated as the Victoria Class submarines for the Canadian Government , and Vanguard class upgrades . CS & S Naval has completed the reactivation of the Royal Navy ' s Type 22 Frigates for Romania and has worked on a similar programme for Chile involving the refurbishment of three ex - Royal Navy Type 23 frigates . On 1 July 2008 BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions merged with Portsmouth - based VT Shipbuilding to form BVT Surface Fleet , a joint venture between BAE Systems and VT Group , which subsequently became BAE Systems Surface Ships in 2009 . Products . As well as through life ship - repair services , the division ' s major construction projects included : BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions was responsible for the construction of the majority of the blocks of Type 45 destroyers ( stern to bridge , excluding masts and funnels ) as well as the assembly of these blocks and the two from VT Group ( compromising all of the ship in front of the bridge ) . When launched from Scotstoun the ships are towed to Govan to be fitted with the VT - built masts and funnels , before returning to dry dock at Scotsoun for outfitting with radar arrays ( SAMPSON and S1850M ) , bulbous bow , propellers , missile equipment and 4 . 5 inch naval gun . BAE Systems completed three Nakhoda Ragam class Offshore Patrol Vessel s for the Royal Brunei Navy , however the customer has refused to accept the vessels . The contract was awarded to GEC - Marconi in 1995 and the ships were launched in January 2001 , June 2001 and June 2002 at the then BAE Systems Marine yard at Scotstoun . The ships are armed with MBDA Exocet Block II anti - ship missiles and MBDA Seawolf air defence missiles . The contract dispute was the subject of arbitration . The vessel left Scotstoun in 2007 in the hands of shipbrokers for onward sale .