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NAVY NEWS, NOVEMBER 2008 3
Dawn of Daring
THE day of Daring is coming.
of the ship’s company – logged in from all parts
The destroyer of tomorrow will soon be the
of Daring and conducted a wide range of typical
destroyer of today after the futuristic-looking warship
RN business (radio chatter, signals, emails) and
completed her final set of sea trials.
not so typical RN business (video conferencing
Having demonstrated on her first two trips
at sea with a land-based team).
to sea that she’s as fast, economical and
For the growing number of ship’s
manoeuvrable (and in some cases more so)
company, this was their first time at sea
as laid down in the specifications, it was time
in Daring, so they took their time to get to
to begin testing Daring’s fighting ability – in
know her layout and her systems as well, pictur
particular her communications kit, combat radar
conducting various training before they
and command systems.
formally move aboard.
For without those Daring is ‘just’ a ship, not
Which isn’t long off. Daring’s sailors are e: la(phot) del tr
a warship. Her state-of-the-art technology must
currently living in (quite nice) apartments
ashore in Glasgow.
possess the ability to ‘talk’ to other state-of-the-art
But next month the destroyer will be
systems.
officially handed over to the RN before bringing the
Good job the ‘conversation’ thrived, then. Over five weeks
ship down to her future home of Portsmouth at the
of intensive trials around the Scottish coast, a mix of RN and
end of January.
BVT (formerly BAE Systems-Vosper Thornycroft) engineers,
As Daring prepares to depart the yard at
warfare experts and communications specialists tested the
Scotstoun, her younger sister Dauntless
otter
software and systems to their limit.
heads down the Clyde this month
At the hub of the Type 45 destroyer’s combat system is to begin her sea trials which,
, frpu north
FICS (Fully-Integrated Communications System) – a dazzling thanks to the extensive
melting pot of satellite, High, Very High and Ultra-High work involving Daring,
Frequency comms, radio, internet and email. won’t be quite as drawn
To test that hub, 30 people – the equivalent of one sixth out.
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