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Destroyer drops into Gibraltar
January 25, 2012 • Gibraltar, Lead2 • 2 Comments
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• HMS Daring as it departed from the Rock |
A BRITISH destroyer has made Gibraltar its latest port of call as it heads to the Suez Canal for a seven month stint on maritime protection duties.
HMS Daring – costing 1.2 billion euros and with a 200-strong crew – will link with a patrol in the Hormuz Strait, currently the focus of tension between Iran and the West.
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Shame its out dated alreday! The french had this 15 years ago(La Fayatete class) even the new morroccan ships have better tech!!
So all the info on this ship that all the UK news channels were spouting on about were b/s why am I not surprised.