24 × Sea Ceptor silos to be fitted starting on HMS Defender from 2026 for:
24 × surface-to-air missiles that will replace the Aster 15 missiles to allow all 48 × Sylver vertical launching systems to be used for Aster 30.][18][19][20]
HMS Dauntless is the second ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defencedestroyers built for the British Royal Navy. She was launched at Govan in January 2007, was handed over to the Royal Navy on 3 December 2009 and was formally commissioned on 3 June 2010.
^Nicoll, Alexander (21 December 2000). "Vosper suffers blow over destroyer order". Financial Times. London. The MoD yesterday signed a £1.2bn contract with BAE Systems to oversee design and building of the first three destroyers...
^"For Queen and Country". Navy News. July 2012. p. 8. One hundred or so miles west of the largest city of Abidjan lies the fishing port of Sassandra, too small to accommodate 8,500-tonnes of Type 45.
^"HMS Duncan joins US Carrier on strike operations against ISIL". Navy News. 7 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015. As well as supporting the international effort against the ISIL fundamentalists – the 8,500-tonne warship has also joined the wider security mission in the region.