By Ben Mitchell
May 20 2017
The Royal Navy has released dramatic footage
of Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond test-firing its Sea Viper missile system
targeting an incoming drone travelling at 500mph.
The £1 billion warship carried out the
exercise, which was designed to simulate a projectile attack on the vessel, off
the coast of Scotland.
The missile flew at four times the speed of
sound before it destroyed the target Mirach drone, which was heading through
the skies above the Outer Hebrides.
Commander Ben Keith, commanding officer of
Portsmouth-based HMS Diamond, said: "We have proven once again that the
Type 45 destroyer is a world-beating ship when it comes to air defence and this
firing gives us the utmost confidence in Diamond and her systems in advance of
our deployment later this year."
Diamond's sister ship HMS Daring returned
home to Portsmouth last week after a nine-month deployment on security patrol
in the Middle East.
Belfast Telegraph
Original post: belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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