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Rolls-Royce Submarines, which has supplied the power plant for the UK’s nuclear-powered submarines for six decades, had signed the biggest deal it has ever made with the UK Ministry of Defence. The deal, worth approximately £9 billion (US$11 million), is large enough to have been given its own name – Unity – and amounts to a long-term provision of more of the same, as the UK moves into the era of the Dreadnought submarine and the AUKUS submarine (the result of a tripartite deal between the UK,