The newly launched HMS Daring, is boasted to be amongst the fleet's deadliest ships:
Among the battery of state-of-the-art equipment is a new Principal Anti-Air Missile System, which can trace and destroy hostile objects as small a cricket ball travelling at three times the speed of sound. Its range is effective over a radius of several hundred miles.
Her PAAMS air defence missiles are the size of a public phone boxes, weigh
two thirds as much as a small car and from launch accelerate to a speed twice
that of Concorde in under 10 seconds.
Ah, but what about creature comforts for the crew?
HMS Daring's 230-strong crew should be happy too. She and her sisters will be the first "gender-neutral" warships to enter Royal Navy service, and the Hotel Facilities, as the living quarters are known, are the most opulent ever fitted in a British warship. Mess decks are replaced by individual cabins, each with their own I-pod [sic] charging points, CD player, internet access, five channel recreational audio and larger berths.As TUAW.com put it, "I can almost hear the cries now, 'Damn the torpedoes, men, it's new music Tuesday!'"
Lord Nelson never had it so good.
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