Two weeks of intensive training with all manner of air power means Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond is at the top of her game on patrol in the eastern Mediterranean…
The Portsmouth-based air defence warship and her 200 crew have been tested by fighter jets including Tornados, Typhoons and F16s, plus E3 surveillance aircraft and Voyager transporters in the skies above and around Cyprus. And just for good measure, she tried her hand at anti-submarine warfare – aided by one of the Royal Navy’s hunter-killer submarines.
