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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Super warship fires Sea Viper missiles

[Sea Viper launch]HMS Diamond - one of the Royal Navy's new breed of super warships - has proved her fighting mettle by testing her missile system off the Outer Hebrides.

She is the third Type-45 destroyer to be built and blasted her missile out of the silo at three times the speed of sound, obliterating a jet drone target out of the sky.

The successful firing of the Sea Viper system means that HMS Diamond is now ready to take her place as a fully operational warship, capable of deploying anywhere across the world.

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