HMS Daring launches today
 

First of the Type 45s

http://www.naval-technology.com/proj...s/Type45_2.jpg

http://www.type45.com/

Finally. I was watching the news this morning and the captain was saying that it is going to be a tight close thing in terms of her size and the Clyde but that BAE have got all the calculations right. We hope. ;)

Should be an impressive sight on the news this evening. :yep:

BBC NEWS 24 tuned in

Looks like it floated then :O)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4667132.stm

at last some thing decent to replace our rusty worn out DDG's

Like all our new weapons it will break down sooner or latter :P :yep:

thats why we have the best engineers, lots of practice ;)

as i recall sea wolf or sea dart was a brand new system during the falklands and did it fail no

same with tigerfish and spearfish torpedos, not failed when they were new

Was it 100% British?

yes it is has not been deployed to any other nation

Are then it must cost a fortune and sooner or latter they will stop buying it.

The new Stingray ASW torp failed to kill atleast one ARA Sub (they attack two others with out sucess as well I think). AS-12s almost failed to sink her too...

BTW the Tigerfish and Spearfish were never used in the Falklands War (did the Spearfish even exist yet?). In fact the CO of the HMS Conqueror didn't use them to sink the General Belgrano because he had doubts about their reliability.

The Seadart is used by another nation. Ironicly its Argentina. They purchased two Type 42 DDG armed with the MK 30 Seadart twin launcher.

Also the Seawolf is used by Malaysia on its Lekiu FFGs, and by Brazil on its Type 22 FFGs.

Oh and the Tigerfish is used by Brazil and Turkey on its Type 209 SSKs.

:roll: :roll: :roll:

:rotfl:

lol spearfish is the newest torpedo in the british navy, tigerfish was on the conquorer.

i knew argentina had two type 42's but im not 100% up on british weapons