The statement added: "The implementation of these restructuring activities will sustain BAE Systems' capability to deliver complex warships for the Royal Navy and secure the employment of thousands of highly skilled employees across the UK".
"I see no reason to expect that the U.K. will want to change from the position that we will build complex warships in the U.K. for reasons of maintaining sovereign capability in the future," Hammond told the BBC.
BAE builds complex warships north of the border.
BAE's statement read: "Following detailed discussions about how best to sustain the long-term capability to deliver complex warships, BAE Systems has agreed with the UK Ministry of Defence that Glasgow would be the most effective location for the manufacture of the future Type 26 ships.
"We now use safer and more efficient mobile cranes in the construction of our complex warships.
Ms Sturgeon, who was standing in for First Minister Alex Salmond while he is on a visit to China, said the BAE cuts announcement meant the Clyde was now the only part of the UK where complex warships could be built.
"The issue is how to consolidate... but make sure that we've preserved the capability to design and manufacture complex warships," Mr Whitehead told the newspaper.
Brilliant workers and the best complex warships in the world, it is a great combination and we should not break it".
Following the October Revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil War, Soviet industry was not capable of designing large, complex warships by itself and sought foreign assistance.
