MBDA Sea Wolf

Sea Wolf is a British naval surface-to-air missile system for the close defence of warships, designed by the British Aircraft Corporation, which became British Aerospace Dynamics and is now part of MBDA. It is an automated point-defence weapon meant to stop sea-skimming and high-angle anti-ship missiles as well as aircraft, and the Royal Navy fielded two versions, the conventionally launched GWS-25 and the vertically launched GWS-26. Development began under a 1967 contract, trials ran from 1970 to 1977, and it entered service in 1979 on Type 22 frigates and modified Leander class frigates. It was the Royal Navy's only modern point-defence weapon in the Falklands War. The missile has a solid-fuel rocket motor, reaches about Mach 2 and carries a 14 kilogram proximity-fused warhead. Sea Ceptor, built on the CAMM missile, has replaced it in Royal Navy service.