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	Encyclopedia: Type 42 destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Type 42, also known as the Sheffield class, is a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy.
		ARA Hercules is a Type 42 Destroyer of the Armada Republica Argentina.
		The ARA Santisima Trinidad is a Type 42 destroyer, of the Armada Republica Argentina.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Type-42-destroyer (2456 words)

	Destroyers Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The torpedo boat destroyer later on took over the role of the smaller torpedo boats, performing torpedo attacks on fleets, such as the devastating Japanese attack on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, and attacks in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
		Destroyers (with a DD hull classification symbol) primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers (DDGs) are multi-mission (anti-submarine, anti-aircraft, and anti-surface warfare) surface combatants.
		The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare.
	www.fburg.com /encyclopedia/Destroyers (1651 words)

	type 42 destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Type 42 Destroyer, or Sheffield Class, were designed in the late 1960s to provide area air defence for the Royal Navy.
		The Type 42 Destroyer was built to fill in the gap left by the cancellation of the Type 82 Bristol Class Destroyer, it was however, designed to be smaller and more cost effective.
		The Type 42 is also equipped with a 4.5inch (114mm) main gun, six torpedo launchers, and two Vulcan Phalanx Mk.15 Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /type_42_destroyer.html (304 words)

	Encyclopedia: Type 42 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Type 42 is also equipped with a 4.5 inch (114mm) main gun, six torpedo launchers, and two Vulcan Phalanx Mk.15 Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS) were fitted after the loss of the Sheffield to an Exocet missile.
		The first six Type 45s (Daring, Dauntless, Defender, Dragon, Duncan and Diamond) have been ordered, with a further two due to be ordered later in the decade.
		The Type 42 class has always suffered from its cramped accomodation, a problem for both crew safety and comfort and also when finding space for upgrades.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Type-42 (449 words)

	Sheffield Class Type 42 Destroyers
		The Falklands War demonstrated the Type 42 design was vulnerable to low level sea skimming missiles and aircraft.
		During the Falklands Conflict (1982) this was a major problem as HMS Sheffield was destroyed not by the detonation of the exocet missile, but by the fires that spread through the ship at a rapid rate.
		The first Type 42 to decommission, Birmingham, was paid off at the end of 1999.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/type42.htm (2278 words)

	sea-type45
		Intended as a replacement for the existing fleet of ageing Type 42 destroyers, the Type 45 will be the largest general purpose surface warship, aside from carriers and amphibious vessels, constructed in the UK since World War II.
		The Type 45 is the UK’s national successor to the common new generation frigate (CNGF) or project horizon-class a tripartite venture with Italy and France and itself a replacement for the abortive early 1990s NATO NFR-90 frigate programme.
		PAAMS, the Type 45’s main armament, was originally intended to equip the CNGF and in spite of early difficulties, due in part to differing national requirements, it has survived, to meet the UK national and ongoing Franco-Italian Horizon requirements.
	www.global-defence.com /2002/sea-type45.html (1586 words)

	Navy History
		Of the destroyers they were 4 Germans, 4 English and 4 French, but the development of the plan was interfered with by the imminence of World War I. The English and French units got to be almost finalized but the contracts, terminated finished in their respective fleets and.
		The destroyers "Buenos Aires", "Missions" and "San Luis" had 34 years of life and its relief was indispensable, reason why from 1971 they were replaced gradually by destroyers of the North American reserve acquired with the modernization of habitual use in the U.S. Navy and some of greater old bearing than "the Fletcher".
		Simultaneously two speedboats, Intrepid and the Indómita, of 250 tons, type TNC 45, armed with a tube of 76 mm were constructed and torpedoes, that happened to serve permanent in the fueguinos channels.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/argentina/navy-history.htm (2514 words)

	Type 42
		The Type 42 provided a reduced "economy" on the smallest possible hull, with maximum automation for the smallest possible crew, carrying the heaviest possible armament.
		The great problem with this gas-turbine propulsion is the extreme noise it develops, rendering the Type 42 unsuited for long, slow stalking of a quiet submarine [the well silenced diesel electric Type 23 being far more suited for this task].
		Running on the Type 42 Destroyers will cost the Navy an additional £565 million to run-on, and operate and support, the existing Type 42 Destroyers because of the delay to the original forecast in-service date of the Type 45 replacement.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/type42.htm (1231 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Focus: the Royal Navy
		Destroyers form the backbone of the Royal Navy's anti-air capability and are equipped with the Sea Dart medium range air defence missile system, which in its primary role is designed to provide area air defence to a group of ships, although it is also effective against surface targets at sea.
		Type 23 Frigates are the mainstay of the surface fleet.
		The fighting force of the Royal Navy is manifest as 3 Commando brigade, which is comprised of three units: 40, 42, and 45 Commando.
	www.guardian.co.uk /military/navy/0,12190,747469,00.html (698 words)

	List of destroyers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is a list of destroyers of the Royal Navy.
		Type 42 Sheffield-class (Batch I) - six ships
		Type 42 Exeter-class (Batch II) - four ships
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /List_of_destroyers_of_the_Royal_Navy (64 words)

	House of Commons - Defence - Written Evidence
		In addition, the Type 42 replacement—would be a multi-role, general purpose platform capable of operations across the spectrum of tasks, from peace support to high intensity warfare.
		The Type 42s are scheduled to leave service at approximately 6 monthly intervals, starting in late 2006, with the exception of HMS Birmingham, which leaves service in 1999.
		The Type 42 replacement's systems and sub-systems will be updated as appropriate throughout the life of the system to take account of developments in the operational environment.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmdfence/544/544w04.htm (5676 words)

	Type 45 Air Defence Destroyer
		The Type 45 class will be the largest and most powerful air defence destroyers ever operated by the RN and the largest general purpose surface warships.
		From 2007 onwards, the Type 42 Destroyers will gradually be replaced by the new Type 45 Destroyers, which are the biggest and most powerful air defence destroyers ever ordered for the Royal Navy.
		The Type 45 Destroyer's main gun armament meets some, but not all, of the Navy's requirements and is not seen as a long-term solution.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/type45.htm (1287 words)

	Sea Dart missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The missile system was also fitted to Invincible class aircraft carriers but was removed during refits in the 1998-2000 period to increase the area of the flight deck.
		The Sea Dart equipped Type 42s are reaching the end of their service lives, with some vessels already retired.
		Construction has begun on the Type 45 class which, with the much more capable PAAMS missile system, will replace the Type 42 from 2007.
	en.mcfly.org /Sea_Dart_missile (153 words)

	Royal Navy: Air Defence Destroyer (Type 45)
		The Type 45 class will be the largest and most powerful air defence destroyers ever operated by the Royal Navy and the largest general purpose surface warships (excluding aircraft carriers and amphibious ships) to join the fleet since World War Two cruisers.
		The Type 42's main armament is the powerful Seadart area defence missile system, which has served the Royal Navy well on operations from the Falklands conflict to the Gulf War, but which now needs replacement.
		The Type 45 will also have a comprehensive suite of other weapons and equipment that will ensure that it can be deployed on a wide range of military tasks.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/1973.html (959 words)

	MoT for destroyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HMS Exeter, the first of the three destroyers to undergo work, began its maintenance (known as ‘docking period’) at Portsmouth last week.
		Type 42 destroyers are primarily tasked to provide air defence for task group operations.
		There are currently twelve Type 42 destroyers in the British fleet.
	www.mod.uk /dlo/press/2003/motfodestroyers.htm (433 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Half of Britain's warships in dock
		The Government admitted yesterday that seven destroyers and frigates would have to be kept in dock because crew members will be standing in for striking firemen.
		But a further five destroyers and frigates are also out of action, as are two of the Navy's three aircraft carriers and Ocean, the helicopter carrier which carried elements of 3 Commando Brigade during the war in Afghanistan.
		A Navy spokesman insisted that the fact that the seven destroyers and frigates were in port for the firemen's strike did not mean they were not available for other operations.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/01/nships01.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/11/01/ixnewstop.html (526 words)

	Warships Magazine - The State of The Royal Navy in 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NTG 2003, led by the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and her escorts, the Type 42 destroyer Liverpool and the Type 23 frigate Marlborough, were joined by the helicopter carrier Ocean and two more Type 42 destroyers, Edinburgh and York.
		There are rumours that the RN is going to take more risks in terms of air-defence cover by losing Type 42 destroyers in the current round of expenditure cuts (seeking to recoup the cash spent on war in the Gulf).
		The Type 45 was so late in coming because Britain wasted too many years trying, and failing, to create an air-defence warship with the French and Italians.
	www.warshipsifr.com /pages/stateOfRN2004.html (1734 words)

	Type 42 destroyer
		The cancellation of the planned CVA-01 aircraft carrier project of the late 1960s, and the related requirement for large guided missile destroyers (of which only one Type 82 ship, BRISTOL, was actually built) for carrier escorts which was now redundant, resulted in the smaller Type 42 design.
		The fl stripe painted down her side was to distinguish her from the two Type 42 destroyers sold to the Argentine Navy.
		The Type 993 radar is mounted atop the aft mast, and has not yet been replaced by the Type 996 in this photo.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/rn/destroyers/type42 (1070 words)

	Type 45 Stealth Destroyer Boat and the Sea Wraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 'Type 45 Destroyer' is a proposed design by BAE systems and Vosper Thornycroft for the British Royal Navy.
		craft is expected to enter service about 2007 to replace the aging type 42 destroyers.
		It is also rumoured, that the ship will be capable of artificially generating a mist to disquise itself as a bank of fog.
	foxxaero.homestead.com /indrad_059.html (363 words)

	noticias - UK: MOD AWARDS ROLLS-ROYCE £137M SUPPORT CONTRACT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Type 42 warships are powered by two Rolls-Royce Tyne Engines, which give a cruising speed of 18 knots, and two Rolls-Royce Olympus engines for high speed running at 31 knots.
		Type 22 frigates are powered by two Rolls-Royce Tyne engines, which give a cruising speed of 18 knots.
		The latter, similar to the RN Type 42 Destroyers, are also equipped with Tyne engines.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=53523 (499 words)

	'D' Class Type 45 Destroyer
		The second attempt to produce a replacement to the Type 42 was also a collaborative venture- this time with the navies of France and Italy.
		Even though this stated the twelve Type 42 Destroyers on a one-for-one basis, spectators feared the increasing costs would mean the navy would receive as few as six, or eight 'Eurofrigates'.
		Meanwhile the first Type 42 to decommission- Birmingham- paid off at Portsmouth on 10th December 1999- her spare parts used to maintain her sister ships.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/type45.htm (1948 words)

	WR-21 Engine Selected for Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyers
		Rolls-Royce has followed a consistent strategy of investing in its marine capabilities and this decision is a significant boost for the company which has enlarged its interests in the sector following the acquisition of Vickers in 1999.
		The Type 45s will replace the Royal Navy's long-serving Type 42 destroyers and are due to enter service in 2007.
		TYPE 45 FACTFILE * With an initial displacement of some 7,200 tons the new destroyers will be the largest built for the Royal Navy since the Tiger class cruisers of the 1941 program.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-01-2000/0001355191&EDATE= (845 words)

	Naval Technology - Type 45 Daring Class - Anti-Air Warfare Destroyer
		The UK Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers are to replace the Type 42 destroyers, in service since 1978.
		The destroyer's displacement will be about 8,000t, the designed top speed will be greater than 27 knots and the range will be greater than 7,000 nautical miles.
		The Type 45 could also accommodate cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk and anti-ballistic missiles if a requirement was identified in future.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/horizon (1393 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Four Type-42 destroyers are to be mothballed as part of a series of cuts over the coming months as the MoD struggles to keep within Treasury-imposed limits on its budget.
		The maximum number of destroyers and frigates the Navy could now keep at sea, at a time when the war on terror is dramatically increasing its workload, would be 23.
		Senior Navy sources said that more Type-42 destroyers, as well as at least two of the Navy's minehunters and even some Type-23 frigates, which date only from the early 1990s, could also be axed.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/06/navy06.xml (826 words)

	PSM supply to the MOD
		The first full shipset of transmitters and display instrumentation for use on the type 42 destroyers was shipped in April.2000.
		The intention is to upgrade the entire fleet of T42 vessels with similar systems as they come in for refit.
		It uses a submersible differential pressure transmitter developed in co-operation with the MOD for the tank level measurement, and employs variants of both the single and multi tank versions of the new Minder family of tank monitors in a multi-drop ship wide network.
	www.psm-sensors.co.uk /mod.htm (108 words)

	Armed Forces - Royal Navy - n3a5 - Royal Naval Vessels - Type 42 Destroyer - Type 45 Destroyer
		She might have been scrapped but the fact that she had just completed a costly update and that the Type 45's are delayed probably tipped the balance in favour of repair.
		The lives of the Type 42 class ships have, therefore, had to be extended.
		Plans are believed to include 12 x Type 45 Destroyer that are needed in-service by 2005, with the entire programme budgeted at about £6 billion.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /navy/listings/l0014.html (515 words)

	Royal Navy
		The Type 45 destroyer will be the UK Royal Navy's future anti-air warfare (AAW) destroyer to provide area defence for the fleet or task force.
		Powerful and versatile with the capability to operate anywhere in the world, the type 23 frigate is the mainstay of the modern surface fleet.
		Primarily an anti-surface and anti-submarine helicopter designed to operate from frigates and destroyers of the Fleet, this fast and capable aircraft is has recently been updated to the Mk8 standard, which is now in service throughout the Fleet.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/rn.htm (2780 words)

	Hoon sinks HMS Glasgow, air base, Scots regiment and 20,000 jobs - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The veteran destroyer HMS Glasgow will be taken out of service years ahead of schedule, and RAF bases such as Leuchars are under threat following the withdrawal of a Tornado squadron.
		Three type-42 destroyers and three type-23 frigates would be taken out of service from the Royal Navy by March 2006.
		The oldest type-42 destroyers, HMS Cardiff, Newcastle and Glasgow, by the end of 2005.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5028776.shtml (722 words)

	Type 21 (Amazon Class) Frigate (UK)
		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.
		As the Royal Navy's ship design departments were at full stretch with working on the Type 42 and Type 22 designs, there was an invitation to tender issued to the commercial sector for a suitable design.
		The new Type 21 frigates were the first major warships that were designed to be propelled only with gas turbines.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_type21frigate.html (415 words)

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