HMS Dragon, one of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, successfully fired a Sea Viper missile in a live demonstration of its ...

A UK warship shot down a supersonic missile in what the Royal Navy called a "historic first." The HMS Dragon warship "obliterated" the missile in a test off the coast of Scotland. The Type 45 air ...

HMS Daring, the Royal Navy’s first Type 45 destroyer, has spent more than eight years out of action after chronic propulsion ...

LONDON — The U.K. Royal Navy is to boost the capability of its Type 45 anti-air warfare destroyers by fitting them with the Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile. Confirming the plans to Aviation ...

The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km/h at a range in Scotland, just as a £316m contract for its deployment on a ...

We haven’t really invested at all in homeland air and missile defences as our assumption was that war would be expeditionary...Also, our military would not deploy on an expeditionary mission without a ...

Lasers, or Laser Directed Energy Weapons (LDEW) as military nomenclature has it, are seen as a solution to the threat from ...

Britain’s new DragonFire laser system can destroy drones flying at 650 km/h. Its deployment on Type‑45 destroyers by 2027 ...

Dramatic video shows a Royal Navy warship shooting down a supersonic missile in a “historic first” for the UK’s defence force. HMS Dragon, a Type 45 destroyer based in Plymouth, successfully ...