The replacement for the destroyers of the County-class, were much more compact and austere than their fore bearers. The primary role of the Type 42s was to provide area air defence for the ships they ...

Ever since the Falkland Islands War and the sinking of the Royal Navy’s HMS Sheffield Type 42 destroyer in 1982, the world has been asking whether or not capital ships were going to be survivable in ...

HMS Cardiff, a Type 42 destroyer, was launched on February 22, 1974, commissioned on September 24, 1979 and decommissioned on July 14, 2005. She served in the Falklands War, shooting down the last ...