HMS Daring’s (D32) on it’s way home, for the first time.
January 28, 2009 – 11:28 am
So, the first of six new Type 45 Destroyers, HMS Daring, has completed it’s sea trials (stage 1) and so has been handed over to the Royal Navy (Dec 2008).
Three more ships are currently undergoing stage 1 sea trials, with two more in production. One of the first things the Royal Navy has said is “wut, da gun ain’t big enough lolz” and is investigating into upgrading the forward 114mm deck gun to 155mm.
I would assume these are to protect the future RN "Supercarriers" that will be finished in 2012 or so. As carriers are quite easy to hit from the air! (World-class anti-submarine military equipment is already available.)
But why would we need to upgrade our sea based anti-air capability, and to such an extent? Six ships able to fire missiles at aircraft 100KM away… Sounds a bit extreme for the "war on terror", which of course is just mostly urban.
Ignoring the fact that quite a few ships will be de-commissioned in the next few years, the govenment has been busy ordering stuff.
232 Eurofighers (£16 billion), 12 BAE Nimrod MRA4s (£1.1 billion), 138 F35 fighters (£8.1 billion) for the 2 new air craft carriers (£4 billion), six new anti-air destroyers (£6.7 billion) and much more…
But yet they can’t afford to keep old people warm?
Surly that can’t all be to take on somalian pirates or afghans. And look at the Americans, they are upgrading their sea based air attack capability too. But for what? What country has an air force, a navy and an army that hasn’t been invaded yet?…. Oh dear Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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