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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

HMS Defender sails through second sea trials

[HMS Defender]The fifth of Britain's Type 45 destroyers is getting closer to being taken in to operational services after completing her second period of sea trials off Scotland.

HMS Defender spent nearly a month off the Scottish coast testing her combat systems and sensors ahead of her impending handover to the Royal Navy and is now in the final weeks of trials and tests on the Clyde as she prepares to join her sisters in Portsmouth.

Defender put to sea for her first sea trials last autumn, sailing two years to the day of her launch, to test the basics – engines, power and manoeuvrability.

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