Template:Type 45 weapon fit
From WWII Archives
- Anti-air missiles:
- PAAMS air-defence system
- 48 × Sylver Vertical Launching System A50 for:
- Aster 15 missiles (range 1.7–30 km)
- Aster 30 missiles (range 3–120 km), to be upgraded with a ballistic missile defence capability.[1]
- [24 × cell Sea Ceptor silos to be fitted from 2026 for:
- Anti-ship missiles:
- Up to 8 × Harpoon missile[4] (intermittently deployed since 2022;[5][6][7] to be replaced with Naval Strike Missile from 2023/24)[8][9]
- Guns:
- 1 × 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun
- 2 × 30 mm DS30B guns
- 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
- 2 × 7.62 mm Miniguns
- 6 × 7.62 mm general purpose machine guns
- ↑ "Type 45 Ballistic Missile Defence upgrade to support more than 100 UK jobs". UK Government. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ↑ "£500m firepower upgrade for Type 45 destroyers". GOV.UK. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ↑ "Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers – reaching their full potential with addition of Sea Ceptor missiles". Navy Lookout. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ↑ "Contenders for the Royal Navy's interim anti-ship missile requirement". navylookout.com. August 26, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ↑ @NavyLookout (17 March 2023). "@HMSDuncan sails from Portsmouth this afternoon. Has been re-equipped with Harpoon missiles - the first Type 45 to carry SSM for several years" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 March 2023 – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Can the UK supply anti-ship missiles to Ukraine?". 10 April 2022.
- ↑ Scott, Richard (February 16, 2022). "UK confirms cancellation of I-SSGW programme". Janes Information Services. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ↑ "Royal Navy to buy the Naval Strike Missile". Navy Lookout. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ↑ "Royal Navy ships to be fitted with advanced new missile system". gov.uk. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.