HMS Exeter Type F32 Destroyer 1/700 Scale Dragon

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http://www.steelnavy.com/WEMt42ExeterBustelo.htm

The class was designed in the late 1960s to provide fleet area air-defence. In total fourteen vessels were constructed in three batches, eight of which remain in service. In addition, two ships were also built to the same specifications as the Batch 1 vessels for the Armada Republica Argentina. The ships, along with the Type 23 frigates, today form the backbone of the Royal Navy surface fleet. HMS Sheffield and Coventry were lost in the Falklands War to enemy action, this war being the only time in history where two surface warships of the same design have been on opposite sides.

The Type 42 began as an original, lighter-design to complement the heavier Bristol (Type 82) air defence cruisers, proposed to give protection for the proposed CVA-01 carrier. When Bristol was cancelled with the proposed carrier by the Labour Government of 1966, the Type 42 was proposed as a design with the same capabilities as the far larger Type 82, but at a much lower cost. The class is fitted with the Sea Dart surface-to-air missile first deployed on the Bristol. The Type 42s were also give a flight deck and hangar to field an anti-submarine warfare helicopter, greatly increasing their utility compared to the Type 82.