The Royal Navy's HMS Diamond has demonstrated its Sea Viper missile gadget off the coast of Scotland, the navy introduced on 19 may additionally.
The firing was a part of the work-up duration for the class 45 destroyer forward of its deployment on operations later in 2017.
during the examine, the missile accelerated to Mach four (four instances the pace of sound) earlier than successfully destroying its goal - an incoming Mirach drone target relocating at around 500mph – in a state of affairs designed to simulate a projectile assault on the ship.
Sea Viper contains the Sampson radar device and the Aster missile equipment. The gadget tracks aircraft and other objects across hundreds of cubic miles of airspace, identifies threats, and destroys them when imperative.
HMS Diamond's training package is now finished and the vessel will return to Portsmouth for a last length of preparations before deploying later this 12 months.
