But, in a statement, BAE said the Type 45 order would have no significant impact on its short-term workload and it would therefore make redundant 1, 000 workers on the Clyde and 150 in Barrow over the next six months.
"Sadly we do not have the funding necessary to keep employees on, so it is with great regret that we place ourselves in a position where we will have to make redundant later today the vast majority of the workforce, " a representative of administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers said.
First they make me redundant and then they kick me out of my house.
Another reason is that many troubled companies have chosen not to make staff redundant.
He said it was "outrageous" that rules designed to "protect British jobs" could help make workers redundant.
When the recession took hold in the early 1990s, the idea that Japanese firms would make workers redundant was unthinkable.
But the council is expected to make their objections redundant by cancelling its eighth prediction programme, which would otherwise be due to get under way in 1999.
The company is in "good shape" with continued growth in the first three quarters of the year and there were no plans to make permanent staff redundant, it added.
Unite says the company has threatened to make 236 people redundant and replace them with agency workers if staff do not accept "the new, worse terms and conditions before the end of the legal consultation period".
This is justified because their redundant employees make the biggest demand on the scheme.
The Winsor Report recommended allowing forces to make any police officer redundant, not just those with 30 years experience.
In a statement, the administrator said "it has been necessary to make a number of staff redundant as of 9 November".
There are reports that the company is poised to make several thousand of its staff redundant.
The railway's chief executive Graham Oliver said he may have to make some of its 52 staff redundant.
Meanwhile, regional airline Flybe has said it expects to make 15 of its 150 staff redundant at its Belfast base.
Plank chuckles as he recalls one chief executive who is considering such a deal, even though it might make the company's management redundant.
Surrey are set to make 20 of their off-field staff redundant in an attempt to plug a budget deficit, while Kent have had to deny rumours that they are in danger of going into administration.
The inquest heard one of the first tasks she had to perform was to make one part-time teacher, Angela Mercer, redundant at the end of the school year - something she found difficult and which was having a "detrimental effect upon her".
Carriers say they've worked in recent years to make their networks more reliable, installing more secure infrastructure and redundant communications paths.
Chan writes and directs with a verve and wit that make the stock descriptions "gritty" and "documentary-style" redundant.
"It would make porous distribution mechanisms and our dependence on the moral scruples of the bureaucrats redundant, " he says.
But in return, Greece must make deep cuts in public spending, slashing pensions and wages and making thousands of civil servants redundant.
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