HMS Daring Departs For Sea Trials

On 18th July 2007 HMS Daring departed Scotstoun, Glasgow to commence sea trials. HMS Daring is the first of class Type 45 Destroyer due to enter service with the Royal Navy.

The Type 45 class will be the largest and most powerful air defence destroyers ever operated by the Royal Navy.

Daring is the first of six ships ordered by the UK Ministry of Defence.

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[szorticx]

Were these ships designed with the new aircraft carriers in mind i.e to support them or to be independent ? I know they were reduced from 12 to 6, and that's before any other cuts happen. Once all are built, likley only 3 or 4 will be sea worthy at any one time, along with one ' reduced sea time ' ( to save costs ) carrier, the Chinese / Russians will be happy with this. Strange how our various governments think we have little or no threats to us, let's hope we don't have.

[MattHawkinsUK]

@szorticx the T45 destroyers were designed to support the carriers as part of a naval group.

[MattHawkinsUK]

@HRMacQuacken BP is half owned by US share holders. At least they are paying compensation and cleaning up their mess. Unlike US companies when they trash the environment. Union Carbide and Exxon to name but two. Talking of terrorists I'm more concerned about real terrorists rather than imaginary terrorists convicted on dodgy evidence. US funded Irish terrorists for example who have been blowing up British civilians for years. If you don't know where Ireland is look it up on a map.

[MattHawkinsUK]

@HRMacQuacken Superior when it comes to shooting down civilian airliners maybe. Superior when it comes to requiring more crew to operate.

[MikeNspicy]

@G1formation you don't miss the things you take for granted till they're gone.

[ScottishCaledonian]

@G1formation Britain is a g8 country, hardly third world.

[HelmutVillam]

@zarquon53

Cruisers are long range multi-purpose vessels designed to operate alone, but since ship endurance has increased, carrier air power has risen and the need to guard former colonial assets has waned, the cruiser type ship has disappeared. The last remaining true cruisers are the Russian Kirovs (rather generously called Battlecruisers) and the Peruvian BAP Almirante Grau. Everything else is a cruiser by some strange naming scheme only, and a Destroyer at heart.

[tjengland96]

went to see this last month when i was staying on hms bristol with the marine cadets in portsmouth. i stayed in mess 12 very good experience.

[BritishAndProudNS]

Would not want to be on the receiving end of this bad boy

[MattHawkinsUK]

@G1formation unlike the US which only exists based entirely on debt. If the US actually paid it's way it would have nothing to show for it. 14 trillion dollars. That is how much you owe the World. That isn't even 3rd World. 5th World more like it. The Type 45 has been paid for with real money unlike the US Navy which has been paid for on someone else's credit card.

[G1formation]

@MattHawkinsUK britain still exsists? arent they just a tiny cloudy third world island? nobody cares about britain

[xDarkVengeancex]

The reserve carrier will be useless it will not be fitted out with any equpment ie no cat or traps to launch aircraft it will take months to bring it up to spect maybe even more than a year and even then we wont have enough planes to put on it we are only going to will buy 12 planes initaily as said on bbc parliment by the rear admiral husean i dont know how much all together we will have but we need both carriers fully functional with a total of at least 80 F35C

[navnig]

@szorticx there's only going to be one carrier now, two are to be built with one entering service and the other being mothballed upon copletion :(

[TheARMAProductions]

@Willifrex Yeah they'll use the other Carrier as a Reserve Carrier. It doesn't take much to put it into service in case of an immugency tho. In 1982 we had a similar situation where one of our carriers was in docks. They took it out and repaired it's gearbox on route to the Falklands (never been done before or since). The government seem to have a date of 2020 for where they want to be. The F-35 won't be ready until then anywayz.