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Daring Trials Begin

Britain’s newest warship, the Type 45 guided missile destroyer Daring (pennant D-32), has left the BAE Systems shipyard on the Clyde to begin sea trials. The Daring is the first of a class of destroyers that, under current plans, could total 12 ships.

The construction of the Daring-class ships is highly significant for the Royal Navy in view of the recent cutbacks in surface fleet strength and the reduction in the number of nuclear-propelled submarines being planned. The Darings are to replace the aging Sheffield-class destroyers (Type 42).

According to the website Military Periscope, the multi-purpose destroyers will have a theater ballistic missile-defense capability with the U.S.-developed
Standard SM-2 (Block IVA) surface-to-air missiles. The ships will use the Principal Anti-Aircraft Missile System (PAAMS), currently in development by France and Italy. PAAMS will be a long-range air/missile defense weapon, capable of simultaneously engaging multiple targets.

The Daring-class ships will also have the 4.5-inch Mark 8 Mod 1 gun for shore bombardment, a standard weapon in British surface ships, and will embark a multi-purpose large Merlin or smaller Lynx helicopter. The ships also have the Harpoon anti-ship missile and anti-submarine weapons.

The ship will have advanced electronic systems, including radars, sonars, electronic countermeasures, and data links.

Five additional ships are now on order or under construction.

The Darings will have a full load displacement of 7,450 tons with an overall length of 499 feet, making them smaller than the improved U.S. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which displace 9,200 tons on a length of 509 feet. Also, the British ships are rated at 29 knots, about two knots slower than their U.S. contemporaries.

-- Norman Polmar

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Posted by: ts464 at June 11, 2008 11:06 AM

A bit of a correction. He states the vessel has the ability to go 29 knots, about two knots slower than a US destroyer.
The US Navy says all of their ships go 30 knots. Even when they go a lot faster. How fast a ship can go is a military secret.
So him stating the ship can go 29 Knots must be taken as a “need to know” speed.

Posted by: Dennis at July 26, 2007 01:47 PM

To McNab;
Actually the ships are very likely to carry Merlins, the flight deck was specifically designed for them!
Harpoons will be carried, again the ship is fitted for them and the MOD has already announce that they will be carried. The ships only real limits at the moment are it's lack of ASW and the desistion not to fit the ships to fire Cruise.
However this can be rectified in the future as the ships are fitted for torpedo tubes (though not with them) and modules can be inserted at a later date to fire cruise.
Lastly on a recent test of the SAMPSON radar the system tracked and managed to define a firing solution for every aircraft taking off and landing at Heathrow, Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Frankfurt and all the smaller airports in between!!

Posted by: Wren at July 25, 2007 02:33 AM

Afraid the Daring class is not quite as punchy as the article makes out. The PAAMS system is going to be very capable for area Air Defence, but there are no plans as yet to fit any TBM capability. They are unlikely to carry Merlins in the near future, and there are still no real plans to have any Harpoon as well.
In all the T45s are going to be big hulls with a very decent AAW fit, but little else until more money is given to the RN.

Posted by: McNab at July 23, 2007 01:02 PM

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