Posted on 01/11/2012 7:10:05 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Sailors' farewell to families as new Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring sets off on maiden deployment to the Middle East
By Daily Mail Reporter
Heading out to sea from Portsmouth, this is the Royal Navy’s newest and most hi-tech warship setting sail on its maiden deployment.
A crowd of family members and well-wishers gathered to wave off HMS Daring as it left its home base for a seven-month mission to the Middle East. The warship is the first of the six new Type 45 destroyers being introduced to the fleet.
Daring will take over from a frigate on station east of Suez where it will continue counter-piracy measures as well as provide general backup for the UK’s operations and allies in the region. The £1 billion destroyer, also carries the world's most sophisticated naval radar, capable of tracking multiple incoming threats from missiles to fighter jets. The vessel has also been fitted with new technology that will give it the ability to shoot down any missile in an enemy's armoury. Preparations for the deployment have included extensive training culminating in an eight-week operational sea training course which the ship and crew passed in November. The ship is the first of six new destroyers which will replace the Type 42 vessels which started service in the 1970s.
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On its way: HMS Daring, the largest and most powerful destroyer warship ever built for the Royal Navy, leaves Portsmouth Harbour on its maiden voyage to the Middle East
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I hope that history doesn’t repeat itself with what happened to the HMS Hood on her maiden voyage.
Fair Winds and Following Seas, HMS Daring.
Best thing about the queens ships? They’re wet!
Which HMS Hood are you referring to?
I’m looking at the picture and asking myself..”Why does she have a tugboat mounted on her foredeck??
Tug even brought its own bow wave to the foredeck:)
If you are referring to the Bismark engagement, Prince of wales was on her maiden voyage, Hood was a veteran - I think CS Forester called her a “fighting termagant”
Hood was an older ship and veteran, I think, of Jutland in WWI. Pride of the British Navy but the girl was no virgin by the time of her fatal encounter with the Bismark. G*d bless all the men who went down with her.
Not to take away anything from The Royal Navy, but right now this is the best the Brits have. A destroyer. Man, how they have fallen.
I understand exactly why this ship looks like she does. That being said, that is one fugly ship.
The term “Destroyer” these days has changed meaning. It’s much closer to a “Cruiser” than the small escort ships of yore. This thing carries a bunch of short and medium-range missiles, a torpedo-armed helicopter, and several medium guns, and a radar system that can track more than 400 targets simultaneously, and can easily tear most unfriendly navies a new a$$hole all on its own. Only Russia, the US, and Peru operate anything heavier that isn’t an aircraft carrier.
That looks to big a ship to be a destroyer
Yah... I was thinking cruiser, before reading the caption.
Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser
The destroyer looks bigger.
If you want to call it a cruiser, it’s pretty poorly armed. It’s not been fitted with anti-ship or land attack missiles and its torpedoes are meant for its helicopters.
I believe the USN’s Arleigh Burke and Japan’s Kongo class destroyers are comfortably bigger. And far more heavily armed.
Yeah but considering what the RN once was....
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