HMS Defender is a destroyer made for United Kingdom Royal Navy by BAE systems surface ships. It was commissioned on 21 March 2013 and still in service. Defender sailed 700 miles from Portsmouth to the north east of Scotland on 19 December 2013 to meet a Russian task group of six ships.
Defender was part of Operation Shader employed as an air defence guard ship for the US Carrier Task Force 50.
In June 2016, Defender, in conjunction with Australian and French ships, seized a total haul of 1020 kg of hashish.
There have been seven previous ships of this name. The first was a 12 gun brig that was disposed of in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens. The current HMS Deffender is the fifth type 45 Destroyer.
It tracks aircraft and other objects across thousands of cubic miles of airspace, identifies threats, and destroys them when necessary. Equipped with a Wildcat helicopter from Yeovilton-based 815 Naval Air Squadron, Sampson radar and the Sea Viper missile system, HMS Defender was exercising alongside nine other navies at the Hebrides range in Scotland.
Specifications
Launched on: 21 October 2009
Motto: "By Defence I conquer"
Length: 152.4 m
Power installed: 2 × Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines
Speed: 56 km/h
Range: 13000 km
Electronic warfare
& decoys: UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)
Aircraft carried:
1–2 × Lynx Wildcat, armed with
4 × anti ship missiles
2 × anti submarine torpedoes
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