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Daring enjoys ‘truly amazing’ experience working with American carriers 20/03/2012 Britain’s most advanced warship, HMS Daring, has worked with two American aircraft carrier groups as her Gulf mission steps up a gear. The new destroyer has been showing off her air defence and fighter control prowess with the USS Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln and their task groups. Turning away from the most powerful surface ship in the world is the most advanced warship in the Royal Navy. On her maiden deployment, HMS Daring has worked with not one but two US Carrier Strike Groups – here the USS Carl...

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...

World's most advanced destroyer handed to Royal Navy The world's most advanced destroyer with the capability to defend the entire city of London from missile attack has been handed over to the Royal Navy. By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent The Type 45 warship will be a significant boost to the Navy that has suffered severe cuts in recent years bringing the latest in anti-missile technology, radar detection and propulsion. But HMS Daring will have to wait several years to be able to defend the major aircraft carriers that it was built to support as a major delay for the ships...

EXCLUSIVE Don't Dare mess with us Awesome ... Sun man on supershipPictures: PAUL EDWARDS       By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor THIS is the deadliest ship ever built — the Navy’s awesome new Type 45 destroyer. HMS Daring boasts an extraordinary array of firepower. And The Sun was given an exclusive tour of the state-of-the art warship. Daring is the first of a batch of eight Type 45 destroyers — built at a total cost of £6BILLION. Weighing in at 8,000 tonnes, the 14-deck monster is almost twice the size of the current Type 42s. She is armed...