HMS Defender (D36) - Wikipedia
WEBHMS Defender is the fifth of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name. Construction of Defender began in 2006, and she was launched in 2009. The ship completed her first sea trials in October and November 2011, and was commissioned during March 2013.
HMS Defender (D36) - Royal Navy
WEBLaunched in December 2009, HMS Defender is the fifth of the Royal Navy’s six Type 45 destroyers. Together with her sister vessels, Defender is one of the most advanced warships ever constructed.
HMS Defender: Russian jets and ships shadow British warship
WEBJun 23, 2021 · More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow's defence ministry said a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped...
HMS Defender: Russian jets and ships shadow British warship - BBC
WEBJun 23, 2021 · More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow's defence ministry said a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs...
HMS Defender: Moscow releases footage it says shows Navy …
WEBJun 24, 2021 · The Russian Defence Ministry has released footage it says shows HMS Defender being "chased out of Crimea waters" by military aircraft and vessels. It comes as Britain dismissed Moscow's claims that warning shots were fired at the Royal Navy destroyer and that bombs were dropped in the warship's path.
HMS Defender: What will be the fallout from Black Sea incident? - BBC
WEBJun 23, 2021 · HMS Defender is part of the Carrier Strike Force, spearheaded by the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. It peeled off earlier this month to make this Black Sea visit...
HMS Defender: Russia's Putin accuses UK and US of military ... - BBC
WEBJun 30, 2021 · Russia's Vladimir Putin has accused the UK and US military of staging a "complex provocation," after British warship HMS Defender sailed near the coast of Russian-annexed Crimea.
Defender celebrates ten years of operations - Royal Navy
WEBMar 24, 2023 · In her primary role as a specialist in air defence, Defender has joined a US Carrier Task Group, deployed with French Navy carrier Charles de Gaulle and her battle group; and sailed with HMS Queen Elizabeth on her landmark maiden operational deployment to the Indo-Pacific.
HMS Defender destroys drone in exercise which paves the way …
WEBJun 2, 2023 · A Royal Navy warship destroyed a jet drone during the world’s largest test of naval and missile defences. HMS Defender deployed to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides for Formidable Shield 2023 to test missiles, systems, sensors and software against ballistic, subsonic and supersonic targets, alongside 13 NATO and partner nations.
HMS Defender incident: what the law of the sea says - The …
WEBJun 24, 2021 · Article 18 defines “passage” as navigation through the territorial sea of a coastal state without calling into one of its ports – as HMS Defender was doing – or to or from the internal waters of...