Article Summary - HMS Daring, the Royal Navy’s first Type 45 destroyer, has spent more than eight years out of action after chronic propulsion failures exposed deep flaws in Britain’s most advanced ...

Key point: Cost is a major concern. The Royal Navy may already have identified a possible replacement for its Type 45 destroyers. A version of the new Type 26 frigate, which should enter service with ...

Britain’s Type 45 destroyers will receive a new missile system as part of a larger weapons overhaul that will substantially increase the ships’ combat capabilities. CAMM is a family of next-generation ...

The UK MoD is upgrading the capabilities of its Daring-class Type 45 destroyers with the addition of MBDA’s Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM), known as Sea Ceptor. MBDA has been awarded an ...

Type 45s are impressive ships on paper. But Britain is not in any position to handle them given their current, systemic problems. Britain has struggled for decades in the wake of its victory in the ...

Thanks to a £500 million ($680 million) upgrade, the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers are about to get more powerful than ever, as the main shield against air attack will be packed with missiles. And ...

The Royal Navy’s most advanced destroyer has completed a large-scale exercise off the coast of Colombia, marking a return to full front-line action after a major overhaul. Two former British military ...

The sixth and final Type 45 destroyer, Duncan, has been delivered to HM Naval Base Portsmouth by BAE Systems and will be handed over to the U.K. Ministry of Defense at a ceremony. Duncan arrived into ...