Article Summary - HMS Daring, the Royal Navy’s first Type 45 destroyer, has spent more than eight years out of action after chronic propulsion failures exposed deep flaws in Britain’s most advanced ...

HMS Daring, the first of six Type 45 Anti Air Warfare Destroyers in production for the Royal Navy, has docked at its home port of Portsmouth for the first time. It has been hailed by its creators as ...

Key point: Cost is a major concern. The Royal Navy may already have identified a possible replacement for its Type 45 destroyers. A version of the new Type 26 frigate, which should enter service with ...

Type 45s are impressive ships on paper. But Britain is not in any position to handle them given their current, systemic problems. Britain has struggled for decades in the wake of its victory in the ...

Britain’s Type 45 destroyers will receive a new missile system as part of a larger weapons overhaul that will substantially increase the ships’ combat capabilities. CAMM is a family of next-generation ...

The UK MoD is upgrading the capabilities of its Daring-class Type 45 destroyers with the addition of MBDA’s Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM), known as Sea Ceptor. MBDA has been awarded an ...

MBDA makes the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile. (MBDA UK) LONDON — Britain’s Type 45 destroyer is to be fitted with a new short-range anti-air missile as part of a wider weapons capability upgrade, ...

HMS Defender makes it way up the river Clyde past Dumbarton Castle on March 22, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Clyde built Type 45 destroyer is returning to her affiliated city for the first time ...

Thanks to a £500 million ($680 million) upgrade, the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers are about to get more powerful than ever, as the main shield against air attack will be packed with missiles. And ...

The sixth and final Type 45 destroyer, Duncan, has been delivered to HM Naval Base Portsmouth by BAE Systems and will be handed over to the U.K. Ministry of Defense at a ceremony. Duncan arrived into ...

They were unveiled amid much fanfare five years ago, boasting the world’s most sophisticated naval radar and cutting-edge stealth capability. But Britain’s frontline £1billion warships already need a ...