HMS Defender makes it way up the river Clyde past Dumbarton Castle on March 22, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Clyde built Type 45 destroyer is returning to her affiliated city for the first time ...

A UK warship shot down a supersonic missile in what the Royal Navy called a "historic first." The HMS Dragon warship "obliterated" the missile in a test off the coast of Scotland. The Type 45 air ...

LONDON — Britain launched the fourth of its Type 45 destroyers, HMS Dragon, on Nov. 17. The second of the class, HMS Dauntless, has just begun sea trials. The United Kingdom is now buying only six ...

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 ...

The HMS Daring, first in a new class of anti-air destroyers being built by the United Kingdom, is being assembled in anticipation of its February launch, BAE Systems said. The ship will be the first ...

Back in the 1800s, Britain's bellicose boast might have been true -- but Britain's Royal Navy is fast disappearing from the world's oceans. Take the new "Type 45" stealth destroyer for example, the ...

HMS Daring was the first of six new Type 45 destroyers embarked from Portsmouth on its maiden deployment, a seven-month mission to the Middle East, in early 2012. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) LONDON — An ...

A Russian patrol ship fired a warning shot yesterday at the British destroyer HMS Defender off the coast of Crimea. This was followed by the dropping of high-explosive OFAB-250s fragmentation bombs in ...