HMS Diamond is the Royal Guardship for the King’s Coronation.
The crew expressed their pride and enthusiasm for representing the Royal Navy during this momentous occasion.
HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer, is one of the most advanced surface combatants in the British fleet. With its impressive capabilities and distinguished service record, the ship is a fitting choice for the prestigious role of Royal Guardship during the coronation.
The crew of the HMS Diamond, also known as #TeamDIAMOND, took to social media to share their excitement about the honour, stating, “It is fantastic to be in our capital representing your Royal Navy.”
#TeamDIAMOND is proud to be the Royal Guardship for the King's Coronation. It is fantastic to be in our capital representing your Royal Navy. pic.twitter.com/mzCjJcZu1M
— HMS Diamond (@hmsdiamond) May 4, 2023
Equipped with the cutting-edge Sea Viper missile system, which includes the Sampson radar and the Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles, the ship can effectively identify, track, and neutralise a wide range of aerial threats, including enemy aircraft, drones, and missiles.
As with having a type 45 in the Thames for the Olympics, it’s a sad reflection of the countries traditional failure to have credible ground based air defence capability. I pity any of our forces having to deploy anywhere they face an air threat. Shame our glorious government don’t give a shit.
Why sad?
It is the best AAW ship out there and the threat isn’t ASW so it is the correct asset to deploy?
Apart from anything else it has the best radars for the job?
So I’m puzzled by your comment TBH.
Needing to rely on a ship to protect an inland area due to having extremely limited ability to protect it any other way.
If you can’t grasp the absurdity of that nothing anyone can say will change that.
Come the day these ships need to carry out their duties at sea the mainland is royally fooked and open to all comers.
Yes, we do have a very limited land defence capability with Land Ceptor / Sky Sabre which isn’t sufficiently capable as the radar doesn’t have the power, range or resolution of T45 two main sets nor do the missiles have the range of A30.
But, I’m trying to think of any other nation, other than Israel, that has a fully integrated air defence system that has any signs of working?
BTW T45 might more be there for the power of its radar to fry electronics than for the missiles? Just a thought?
We should have more sordefence assets for both tge field Army and our home bases. Other NATO nations do deploy systems with greater range such as Patriot or SAMP/T. The UK has very short range HVM and Land Ceptor Whilst RAF Regt has lost its air defence capability.
Seems our forces are not actually configured to defend us.
That I agree about.
But not stripping the cupboard bare to make up for zero investment since Blood Hound was withdrawn.
BTW I think the radar element is fixed.
RAF regiment should be given Sky Sabre and a slightly enhanced version using CAMM-ER purchased for army without any more gold plate than that. That is quick and affordable.
ABM defence the UK should use the existing radar heads and a sealed in tube version of A-NT should be developed and used which is similar enough to A30 deployed on T45 that there is commonality in the maintenance / training chain.
Yes, all sensible stuff really.
D-RA has mentioned getting CAMM ER I believe.
Indeed – I try and base my fantasy weapons buying on something that could/might actually happen!
There is also CAMM-XR (MR), which I believe, is what we are developing with Poland. This is an even longer range version than ER. XR was supposed to stand for Xtra Range and MR for Medium Range – so I’m told!!
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We have one of the best air defence Destroyers on hand in the world to protect our capital against air attacks & you are saying we should have ground based air defence systems what… In London?
We are not at war.. and we have the capabilities to protect our capital with a vast array of Weapons on HMS Diamond. No worries & no failures by the Government.
Can anyone on here comment on the loudness of a T45? I visited HMS Diamond and was very surprised by how loud it was. Is this typical of destroyer?
The Coronation is perhaps a moment to take stock of how we have done since the last one. Its O/T but I hope George will allow it.
Below is one of the most telling graphs you will ever see. There is so much buried in it. These are just a few quick points.
The inflection date is when the US$ was freed from the discipline of being tied to gold. This unleashed over the following years what has turned out to be an almost exponential rise it in the amount of money being created. This is where basically inflation comes from.
The major impact in the UK, plus much of the rest of the World given the dominance of the $, was that those who owned assets, from a house to shares in a business (including those paid to look after them) were on the top line, whilst those paid for their labour were left on the bottom line. It shows that the latter, even though they are now being paid a multiple per hour of what they were getting are in real terms are only slightly better off. We may feel it in our lives, especially oldies like me, but this proves it.
The gap between the lines showing that virtually all the financial rewards of the increased productivity went to the already monied classes. It was almost as if that was their intention, believing that those with capital were superior to those who had to work.
Just to make sure that most of we the workers stay where we are, there is a carefully designed regime of Inheritance Tax for us and Trusts for them. As George Orwell so eloquently put it in 1947 at the time of the post war Labour Government “Some pigs are more equal than others”.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvbUhitXsAEwHtI?format=jpg&name=small
Still. Imagine being in Russia. Where a tiny clique of influential gangster oligarchs carve up the nations wealth between them. An autocratic dictator murders and imprisons any and all dissent, a history of deathcamps, genocide and oppression. A population decimated by a catastrophic war against a peaceful neighbour, an economy failing and shortly to become a client state of China. A military that is a virtual laughing stock.
Yeah, you’d know a lot about pigs being equal.
What a load of drivvle from a guy supporting an illegal invasion of a democratic peaceful neighbour. I note you are yet to condemn the murder of civilians, rape , illegal kidnapping and forced repatriation of children or the wanton destruction of property and civilian infrastructure.
I’ll tell you what. You condemn such inhuman acts and I’ll read your waffle distractionary posts.
Great to HMS Diamond involved with her air defence assets ,however do agree we should have land base system.Know we’ve got sky sabre in in use now but has far has I know there deployed over seas Poland ,Falklands if any in UK probably for training use .But to top it all short in numbers.
Army didn’t want more sets as they wanted a longer range system providing a bigger umbrella.
I see a patriot just intercepted a zircon hypersonic missile over Ukraine.
That makes me feel very relaxed about the Zircon threat patriot isn’t nearly as capable as PAAMS / Aster30.
Johnski I thought your zircons were an invincible weapon that was uninterceptable….and yet evidence is to the contrary.
Seems even a 20+ year old medium range SAM can do the job.
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The Missile in question was a Kinzhal not a Zircon,so far there is no conclusive proof of by what means or how it was shot down.
Correct on both points. Logically a Patriot system should be able to intercept a Kinzhal as it is effectively a ballistic Iskander launched from the air. But it ‘jinks’ about in its terminal phase making it very difficult for the PAC-3 missile to hit it. Currently this is a Ukrainian claim, nothing more.
A Yahoo quote from Friday ““There was a possibility of the use of ballistic missiles, but none were detected,” Ihnat said in a comment to Ukrainian boradcaster Suspilne on May 5.
He also noted that some military officials have already received reprimands for spreading false information.” Ihnat quoted is Ukraine’s Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat
This must be an anxious time for you. Your much vaunted Russian military winter assault has resulted in widespread failure, catastrophic losses and an effective mutiny by the Wagner organised crime group. What’s next is a Ukrainian counter offensive using tried and tested manoeuvre warfare tactics with trained personnel and modern equipment. The only question is just how much territory they take back, not if they take any back.
How different it all is from those gloating and smug statements you posted at the beginning of the invasion. Bum squeaking much??
Either you or I will be proved wrong. It is still too early to tell which as the war has proceeded at a pace that was unexpected by many, including me, at the start. Nothing of significance has happened to change my view that the Russians will prevail.
As to Wagner, it is now clear that the whole recent episode was a PR attempt to encourage the UA to move move rescources into the Bakhmut ‘meat grinder’. Both Wagner and the Russian MoD have now owned up to no ammo issues.
How effective the “tried and tested manoeuvre warfare tactics with trained personnel and modern equipment” will be on a modern ISR/ATGM dominated battlefield, with any element of surprise gone, is still to be seen. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to destroy rear units and supplies, using an increasing variety of weapons, the latest being their wing kitted dumb bombs.
You mean as opposed to any decent sized ammo or logistics hub that has to be held outside HIMARS range otherwise the Ukranians blow them with HIMARS pretty much every time?
We have not yet seen any modern Western kit deployed offensively so it will be very interesting.
And that is as opposed to the self destructing Soviet tanks that are being deployed complete with comedy jack-in-a-box turret.
I regret the loss of life on both sides but Putin is an idiot and is getting what he deserves which is the humiliation of Russia & Russian forces. He was pretty stupid if he though the West would stand by while he rolled up various democracies and even more stupid if he though the Nordics were not going to be polarised by that stunt.
Johnny the Nazi cannot agree or even challenge your post effectively as he isn’t allowed to be caught out in a factual conversation! He may reply with some generic shite and continue to ignore whatever he has been corrected on! Just a troll nob jockey who is here now purely as entertainment, like a sad, lonely Nazi clown 👍
Well as in everything you’ve ever posted has been proven wrong I expect that it will be you that’s wrong again. How different you are now compared to your previous diarrhoea from 15 months ago about anything Ukraine or Russia related. Albeit all of that was also complete horseshit.
The rear units and supplies you think the Russians are destroying?? Civilian housing and shops. Unless you include their failed attempt to blow up the Kremlin!!
Spot on!
Although in all fairness, I can’t believe I’m saying this, none of us would have predicted just how useless the Russian weapons/forces are or just how effective a few really good weapons and Ukrainian determination have been!
Certainly, Putin’s disastrous war against Ukraine will be front and centre when it comes to updating the history of ‘ Great Military Blunders. ‘
I have to pinch myself and struggle to believe they really are that useless.
The fact they didn’t steam roller Ukraine is unbelievable the fact that Ukraine has pushed back and retaken ground with no effective airforce is jaw dropping.
You have never served yet speak like you know the subject matter in depth! Armchair Nazi loving warrior! All you know is what your told to know and you have been consistently wrong for the last 16 months, so we don’t expect any change their my little troll! But, as your on the Russian subject once more, and condemnation of Putins illegal invasion of Ukraine and the actions of its Nazi soldiers?
Fuck me just re-read your post for a laugh and spotter this, unbelievable chuff:
“Nothing of significance has happened to change my view that the Russians will prevail”
Methinks you could now possibly get a top job on the Nazi military with tactical and strategic thinking like that 😂😂😂 Ah trolls, so sad and so scared of saying the wrong thing.
John, just for the record, what is your definition of ‘ prevail’ with respect to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Its a simple question and your not short of opinions
No answer of course
Correction: the UA only has PAC-1 and 2, not the PAC-3. Sorry about that.
Other than just to be seen I’m not sure why it’s there.
It wouldn’t be able to intercept a short range drone and it’s useless against hypersonics.
Just for show then.
Would be nice a list of foreign warships that were present.
George. Any report from you on the many thousands of our service personel involved in the coronation today?
I’m intreaged as to how well this system would perform against any realistic threat. Shorely being in the middle of a city surrounded by skyscrapers would have a critical effect on the radar system, and any missile fired would struggle to manoeuvre behind a target at speed without hitting a building.
Depends on altitude. High altitude threat no issue.
The masking effect would be limited as SAMPSON is quite long range compared to the size of London.
The next question is was a Giraffe radar, or some such, on a hill somewhere near creating a synthetic picture with SAMPSON and the T45 wide area search radar? Could well be. Was another T45 turning and burning on another axis?
Were there also Starstreak units on high buildings? As per 2012 Olympics that is quite likely. The Starstreak units could be alerted from T45’s radar picture of incoming.
I don’t think A15/30 is so dumb that it has to fly in a straight line to an intercept point.
All speculation.