HMS DARING arrived in Gibraltar today for a short visit to allow routine re-provisioning to take place.

HMS DARING, the first Type 45, is at the forefront of the Royal Navy’s next generation of Area Air Defence Destroyers. At 151 metres long, weighing 8000 tonnes and packed with the latest in Air Warfare technology, DARING is a world leader and world beater.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon recently announced that DARING will deploy to the Gulf as the UK’s latest contribution to the campaign against Daesh. The destroyer and her 190-strong crew sailed from Portsmouth on Friday with a mission to use her sophisticated radar and missile systems to protect US aircraft carriers as they strike at terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Her mission will also include providing vital information to the coalition’s Combined Air Operations Centre in Al Udeid, Qatar, as well as patrolling some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. The nine-month deployment follows on from that of her sister ship HMS DEFENDER, which carried out a similar role earlier this year.

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