Each Type 45 requires a crew of 190. According to the Navy’s website, “destroyers are part of the backbone of the Royal Navy, committed around the world 365 days a year hunting pirates ...

Admiral Lord West recalling his Falklands' combat experience said that “if your system doesn't work you get sunk. You've lost a ship and you've got dead sailors.” Defense minister Baroness ...

HMS Duncan, the sixth and final of the UK’s sophisticated, new class of Type 45 destroyers, has been formally handed over to the Royal Navy by shipbuilder BAE Systems, the MOD announced today.

Type 45 Daring-class destroyer used its Sea Viper surface-to-air guided weapon system to successfully engage and destroy a ...

All six of the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers - which cost around £1billion each - are docked in Portsmouth, while 12 of 13 Type 23 frigates are either at Portsmouth or Devonport. This is due to ...

In close-in defensive capability, the Type 055 possesses a slight edge over the Japanese Kongo and Atago-class destroyers, as the Japanese destroyers only use 20mm gun Phalanx CIWS systems ...

In close-in defensive capability, the Type 055 possesses a slight edge over the Japanese Kongo and Atago-class destroyers, as the Japanese destroyers only use 20mm gun Phalanx CIWS systems ...

ONLY one of the Royal Navy’s £1billion destroyers is fit to go to sea. The other five are currently in dock for repairs. The Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender arrives at the Black Sea ...