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Navy Matters | Type 45 Section |
 | | The frigate (and destroyer for that matter) are medium sized ships, that tend to fulfill a 'jack-of-all-trades' role within a fleet, having to counter air, surface, missile and submarine threats. |
| | The Type 42 destroyers were at a very early stage of development, as was their sister ships the Type 22 frigates (to replace the Leander class (Type 12M)), and so a large gap was threatening to open up in the Royal Navy's modern fleet escort surface vessels. |
| | The one criticism of the class was that they seemed under-armed for their size and cost, and so the Exocet missile system was installed on all ships after the first three, and those would be fitted with it at there mid-life refits (although Antelope was sunk during the Falklands conflict). |
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