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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Final Type 45 Destroyer Completes Trials On The Clyde

HMS Duncan |It was a programme that arguably saved the Clyde shipyards, albeit with half the number of ships first mooted, but HMS DUNCAN is the final vessel of the Type 45 programme to near handover to the Royal Navy

She returned after her second and final sea trials to the Scotstoun shipyard where she has been fitting out since her launch at Govan shipyard on the South Bank of the river on 11 October 2010.

A major part of the trials involved rigorous testing of the Ship’s Long Range Radar and her Sampson Multi Function Radar, which are the electronic ‘eyes’ of the powerful computer systems behind the Sea Viper missiles in their silo in Duncan’s forecastle.'

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