Type 45 destroyer

The Type 45 destroyer, also known as the D class or Daring class, is a class of six guided-missile destroyers built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy in the early twenty-first century. Designed mainly for anti-aircraft and anti-missile warfare around the PAAMS Sea Viper system, the ships use the SAMPSON active electronically scanned array radar and the S1850M long-range radar. HMS Daring, the first of the class, was launched on 1 February 2006 and commissioned on 23 July 2009. The class replaced the Type 42 destroyers and is the last destroyer class made for the Royal Navy. Its integrated electric propulsion, with Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines, proved unreliable in warm water and led to a power improvement project from 2018.