UK’s most advanced warship secretly deployed to Yemen coast – to break down again?
![British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring. The boat next to it is probably on its way to tug it into the shipyard for more repairs [Image: Glyn Kirk/AFP].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/161110-HMS-Daring.jpg)
British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring. The boat next to it is probably on its way to tug it into the shipyard for more repairs [Image: Glyn Kirk/AFP].
This Writer was reporting on the disastrous condition of our hugely costly Type 45 cruisers as recently as January.
Back then, we were being told electrical failures on the £1 billion warships were common and would cost tens of millions of pounds to fix.
If HMS Daring has to go into combat, it will probably need to be towed away.
Britain’s most advanced warship has reportedly been quietly deployed to the coast of Yemen in what experts claim is a bid to protect the vital Bab al-Mandeb strait – a key oil route.
While the move has not yet been publicly confirmed, the Times newspaper reported Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring had been diverted to the area, which feeds into the Suez Canal.
Source: Oil wars? UK’s most advanced warship secretly deployed to Yemen coast — RT UK
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Look like we follow the US in more ways
What a total disaster. Not a very good time to find we have invested tax payers money in a crock of floating poo. Worse our service personnel are now no better than sitting ducks…..how does it work then? Does the warship captain have to tell the tug to fast track a turn to avoid torpedos? Bad procurement decisions have a lot to answer for hopefully it is not in lost lives.
Well other than ferries the majority of ships need help form tugs to berth, although the boat at the side could be a pilots boat as the ship is clearly moving. I’m not surprised at there being it problems if the government had anything to do with it, because they have previous, many times over of buying or creating dreadful it systems.
My understanding is that the problem caused both IT systems and engines to cut out at the moment of greatest need – in other words, just when the ship was likely to need both its engines and weaponry. It was said to be electrical but – as an IT system was involved, your comment may be accurate.
As for the boat beside the cruiser in the photograph – I was not being altogether serious. Was that not clear?
In such a vessel the electrical system should have redundancy so if a breakdown occurs the back-up system should take over. Before I retired my job was to troubleshoot complex electronic control systems, and found the encroachment of software-controlled devices was already becoming problematic. I still prefer systems using relay/contactor logic, you can see it working and all that’s needed is a multi-meter, screwdriver and sometimes an oscilloscope to trace the fault and then fix it. Today’s software-controlled systems require complex test equipment when the inevitable happens at just the wrong moment. An obsession with pretty flashing lights and all the whistles and bells rather than the old engineers’ maxim: KISS (keep it simple, stupid). Bear in mind our nuclear deterrent runs on a version of Windows XP!
Why are we sending warships to Yemen? It is to save the Yemenis or to reinforce the Saudis?
A rather glib and ill-researched article. It is true that the Type 45 Destroyers have had serious propulsion issues but they have been temporarily cured with engineering par-fixes and some operating restrictions. The situation is not ideal but the ships rarely breakdown now. They will be completely cured by major refits starting in 2019.
You can read the full story here:
http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/putting-the-type-45-propulsion-problems-in-perspective/
The RN has full confidence in Daring and she would not be placed in danger if this was not the case. She is being used in the role she was designed for – to detect and intercept missiles and protect the merchant shipping, key to global trade. This does not signal an endorsement of Saudi actions in Yemen and is essentially a defensive deployment.
Thanks for the up-to-date information but you are telling us that these warships have been given a “quick fix” and are still not up to standard.
This is intolerable – and all we get from the government is one excuse after another. What will it be in 2019?