Sorry to dampen all you warmongerers but lets be honest there wont be another war down there anytime soon! Dauntless is just a gentle reminder.

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Amazingly it can shoot down missiles as well as aircraft.

I think the problem is that the advances in technology aren't readily obvious, but suffice to say that a single T45 is more capable in the air defence role than everything sent down in 82.

Thats all fine but 40 missiles followed by same followed by same and pretty much end of ball game as MOD is not keeping hundreds on board.

Relying on defence assets is great but they all have to work at the same time and keep doing so................

Lets hope they've issued this ship more than 4 missiles...:hmm:

And lets hope the CIWS/Phalanx/Goalkeepers have finally been fitted too....

Phalanx fitted last summer.

Hmm whether she runs out of reloads or targets first methinks....

Seeing as how no Navy has EVER had to face an attack by anywhere near 40 missiles at the same time in the missile age I think that T45 with its 48 Sea Vipers will be fine. Isn't that more missiles than the Argentines have fast jets?

Lets hope the bean counters have given them a full magazine and a few reloads.

Otherwise it's cowpats at 25 yards:E

No Navy ever lost a ship to an airplane until the 1st one.........

Just because something hasn't been done doesn't mean it will never be done.

USS Cole lost out to something a lot less than a missile.

Maybe so, but eggs and baskets spring to mind in this scenario.

48 missiles but only 8 launchers?
How fast can it reload?
DON'T answer that - hypothetical / rhetorical point only

"48 missiles but only 8 launchers?"

Irrespective of your question being "hypothetical / rhetorical", what launchers and what reload? The Type 45 has a VLS (Vertical Launch System) incorporating silos. 48 Sea Vipers in a VLS is a vast improvement on a twin launcher with 22 Sea Darts (Type 42 Batches 2 & 3) or 40 Sea Darts (Type 42 Batch 3).

The classic layer-defence system would have CAP taking out most of the shooters (air or surface) before they got within target acquisition / identification range anyway leaving the Type 45 to deal with any leakers with its hard kill and soft kill countermeasures.

Each launcher has 8 slots and there are 6 on the deck, hence 48 slots.

Should the entire Argentine air force arrive, all 48 could be fired in 10 seconds.

The classic layer-defence system would have CAP taking out most of the shooters (air or surface) before they got within target acquisition / identification range anyway

Anyone care to spot the obvious capability holiday?

Bear in mind that target acquisition is now 'when they take off', so unless you're planning a bombing mission on the mainland I don't see how that would work.

Are all of her systems actually fitted and functioning or was she obtained through the "Smart Procurement" process?


My thoughts exactly.

"for many years there have been VERY cheap and VERY quick and easy ways to render all Falklands airfields useless for defence in about 10-20 minutes (by green minded attackers)."

Quite.

Shout "Fore!" and use a driver off the tee?

The T-45 has no "launchers", irregardless of what that article mistakenly says.

The VLS cells come in a "box" of 6, there are 8 "boxes" aboard... but all 48 cells have their own lid, and the missiles inside can fire independently of any other cell.