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 pre…