Only one of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers is operational, ministers have admitted. HMS Defender, recently at the centre of a diplomatic row with Russia following a voyage off the Crimean peninsula, is the only vessel of the class without an issue. The other five Type 45s all need work, either planned or due to problems developed while at sea. Tobias Ellwood MP, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, suggested the situation was “ operationally unacceptable ”....
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