Type 45 Daring class destroyer

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7848174.stm

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 the most powerful and advanced vessel of its kind.

As a class of warship, destroyers have historically been small, agile ships designed to protect larger, slower convoys and strike groups from airborne and naval threats.

Since the end of World War II, destroyers have steadily grown, both in size and in terms of firepower.

HMS Daring is no exception to this trend. The Type 45 destroyer's primary mission is air defence, a role that its arsenal reflects.

The Principal Anti Air Missile System (Paams) is the Type 45's primary weapons platform and is designed to combat enemy missile attacks on ships.

Paams consists of a 48-cell vertical missile launcher that allows the destroyer to engage targets from 360 degrees.

The missiles themselves are a mix of Aster 15s and Aster 30s, which can strike targets at distances of up to 30km (19 miles) and 100km (62 miles) respectively.

They are radar-guided by the Sampson phased-array radar system perched, like the head of a snowman, atop the Type 45's mast.

The radar suite on the Type 45 can track targets for hundreds of miles around, on the sea and in the air.


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For people like me who love military programs, this is great news. By 2012 we should have 6 of these patroling our waters.

Its a pity we have to spread the two new super carriers over an extra couple of years to help the budget deficit but with the F-35 having massive delivery date & budget problems anyway, that may not be such a bad thing.
 
Always thought it was absolutely retarded we're going for the F35 B variant and installing ski ramps on our carriers. Completely stupid. Should have been flat deck and just modify the landing gear of the Eurofighter. Would have cost a lot less.

The Type 45's are pretty great but AFAIK we are building a lot less than originally intended. Frankly I'd focus more of our military budget on RAF\RN and reduce the size of our army since we're an island nation anyway but that would reduce our ability to occupy and bully people on the other side of the globe I guess.

Huddy - They're not defending the waters per se, they will be defending carriers and other ships. Still, I see what you did there. :)
 
I've had this story through my RSS feeds about 7 times today, I really don't care about it anymore, damn BBC
 
we were suposed to have something like 16 of them originally at the same cost....

seems someone underestimated the cost again by a billion percent
 
We shouldn't be spending so much on military hardware when there is such a short fall in public finances.

Public finances have nothing to do with military funding, thats like saying we should stop the NHS because of the recession.

KaHn
 
Fantastic ships tho I wish the mod would spare the cash to properly fit them out with harpoons and Phalanx
 
Presence is irrelevant. It's not like anything it's going to destroy is ever gonna get in range of actually seeing it. :D
 
Public finances have nothing to do with military funding, thats like saying we should stop the NHS because of the recession.

KaHn
No its nothing like saying that at all.

We shouldn't be spending billions on weapons when we can't balance pension funds.
 
We spend a very small % of our GPD on military programs (around 2.5%). Two new super carriers will cost around £3.9 billion (but lets say 5bill because they never deliver on time or budget). I.D cards = 20 billion. New NHS patient software is not even ready & will cost 6-7 billion with current problems.
 
No its nothing like saying that at all.

We shouldn't be spending billions on weapons when we can't balance pension funds.

Yes but you are saying that we can just scrap one of the biggest industry in the UK, do you realise how many people are employed through MOD projects?

It would throw the UK into termoile.

KaHn
 
Well there is mismanagement at every level, I just think the money could be better spent elsewhere. Before committing it to projects.
 
i personally think the projects like the Eurofighter Consortium should be used on all future European projects, i.e tank, destroyers, carriers, personal carriers.

Obviously the Eurofighter project had its problems with political infighting and work loads share but it was a first so....imagine if the top 10 EU countries were all operating the Challenger 2 tank. The more made the less they cost
 
Public finances have everything to do with military funding, where do you think the MOD gets it's money from? Oh, that'll be the Treasury.

Sorry you seem to got the wrong side of my point, military and public funding do no coincide, we all put money into the treasury and it is split up, each sector (pensions,military,NHS) has it's own set budget and thus it's up to the people incharge to manage this budget.

As it comes down to it if we cut money from Military to fund pensions, why not cut NHS to fund fuel breaks?

Things like this project was budgeted and paid for when the project commenced, jobs were made, peoples lives were built around the project, why should we sit here and then rip apart something which tbh is a small amount of the annual budget now their is a recession in place?

KaHn
 
Sorry you seem to got the wrong side of my point, military and public funding do no coincide, we all put money into the treasury and it is split up, each sector (pensions,military,NHS) has it's own set budget and thus it's up to the people incharge to manage this budget.

As it comes down to it if we cut money from Military to fund pensions, why not cut NHS to fund fuel breaks?

Things like this project was budgeted and paid for when the project commenced, jobs were made, peoples lives were built around the project, why should we sit here and then rip apart something which tbh is a small amount of the annual budget now their is a recession in place?

KaHn

Exactly. The military shouldn't suffer because whoever is in charge of whatever other sector can't sort their pension scheme out. Cutting back on navy spending could lead to the same kind of problems as occurred in the falklands, if anything like that were to ever happen again.
 
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