We the British! Can, without a doubt, design the world's best technology! We can just never get any politician to pay for it.

Something worth noting, the failure wasn't the British RR Turbines but the US Built Northrop Grumman Heat Exchangers that failed to do their job as claimed.
So in reality , the Archllies Heal of the Type 45 was US Tech

Sadly, it's been the same for the last 100 years;  British politicians - and, even worse, senior civil servants - are NEVER willing to see that, however much it costs to build an effective fighting force in peacetime, it's ALWAYS a damn sight worse and far more costly to build it AFTER war breaks out.

In 1991 RN spotted the F117s at 100 miles, which surprised and disappointed USAF and Lockheed

During joint exercises, the T45 crew are often told to switch off their Radars, so that the US can practice Air Tracking and Air Picture compilation without the superior AAW picture provided by the T45.

Just a little update on the silo size. The ships are now been  installed with extra silos in the space made for them. they will have 72 silos when done, I believe the first will be completed at the end of summer.

Probably accurate to call it a sniper.  Often the most effective action of a sniper is not to pull their own trigger but to feed high quality information back to command who can direct artillery or air assets on to the target.  The British ship spots the target first so the US ships know where to look when it gets close enough for them to see.

The USN tend to shoot 2 missiles at each target - see Viper shoots one as it is more accurate That makes its missile load look a little better. However the RN is in the process of fitting 24 extra VLS for Sea Ceptor missiles. The new missiles will replace Aster 15 in the short to medium range role and also give a limited anti-ship capability. The 48 original VLS will all be filed with Aster 30 block 1 -  1NG. This will give 72 SAMS. The power problems are being fixed by upgrading the power generation with 3 new more powerful generators. The ships will also get Dragonfire directed energy weapons from next year. Two quad NSM misfile launchers will also be fitted with 8 misfiles.  The Radar and C3 system will also be updated along with the ability to shoot down medium range ballistic missiles. So the upgraded Type 45 will be much more capable and still cutting edge.

That’s why there installing lazer weapons which are cheaper to use than wasting half a million pound missiles on drones.

Mmmm - 2/5 Exocets were decoyed away in the Falklands.  The main reason the 3 hit is that we had no airborne early warning from 1979 - hastily reinstated after the Falklands war.  And the Sea Wolf that was designed to intercept lot flying threats had only been installed on 2 vessels.  Added to this a few operational cock ups and that’s war at the time rather than than a defective destroyer design.

Too many AI pictures here sadly.

Wait just a minute. The only non-British design part of the type 45 was the American Northrup Grumman Intercooler. Subsequently the Ministry of defence/Admiralty penalised NG and received an undisclosed settlement. Luckily, the issue has now been successfully resolved following the £189 million ‘ power improvement project“.

Incorrect pictures of type 42, 965 upgraded to 1022 & 992 to 996.

I grew up in a seaside town where the Vickers plant made the 4.5 inch guns that you see on all those destroyers foredecks. Then they built the submarine shed that built Trident SSBNs. My dad and I sailed, off our own moorings at the local boat club,  with the engineers and machinists that created naval firepower with their own hands. You really don't want to know, unless your ears are lined with asbestos, their opinion of the Whitehall bean counters.

You probably also don't want to know how many offcuts of stainless, seamless reactor tubing that were too short to make it across the reactor vessel and couldn't be used eventually became deck stanchions on our boats.  😂

The tyoe 45 is beimg upgraded to hold 24 sea ceptors missiles. So will have 24 point defence missiles and 48 longer range anti ballistic missiles with aster 30

Fitted for but not with, heard that so many times in the past.

Not sure why the U.S.  doesn’t develope an Arleigh Burke class of ship ,using a Samson type of radar to work alongside the aegis fitted vessels. Then they would have the capabilities,without having to rely on scarce British ships.

The type 45 is being upraded with other  missles and extra 24 i think that is not enough. The ccoler problem was american designed one, it failed, gruman designed it and just shut down when it got to hot. The gasturbine was not the issue.

Now the 2 QE class carriers are in the water RN could add the extra cells the deck has space for or more likely purchase some drone hulls with cells use type 45 to launch the cells in the drones then when empty send them back to refill only using its own missile as a last resort. I read the type 45 power plants were a joint development with US which would alow sharing of spares and crews from UK and US could assist each other in repairs but US Destroyers were cancelled. US cancelled at least 2 destroyer and cruiser projects as cost over runs on plans and projected build costs, speed of construction predictions and changing requirements and size, add in the Two Literal destroy types built having reduced numbers rail gun cancelled and cracks in structural parts of ship US finds it self with aging fleet and big delays in replacement. Maybe if UK&US came together for a Destroyer and Cruiser projects the numbers the US want would make it more viable for UK to purchase more and US gets more of the scalp like ships UK demands, could offer ships to other nations Canada Australia Japan New Zealand Germany Spain Italy France wont consider it
if the ballon goes up and war with Russia or China happens crews could be mixed from nations who operate the types it could be F35 of the seas but better cost managed.

Arnt all the type 45s being upgraded so smoothing out its problems ?