A Southern Theater Command Navy flotilla—including destroyers Dalian, Kunming, Yinchuan, and Haikou—completed long-range, multi-day and night drills. The task group remained at high alert throughout, effectively testing its operational readiness and real-world combat capabilities. #Trending | CCTV

Type 42 Destroyer, HMS Sheffield, 1/72nd scale, chilly sail at the pond today. | Dundee Model Boat Club

Very rare footage of the Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester passing the US Battleship USS Wisconsin shortly before operation Desert Storm, 1990. Notice a US Navy Seahawk helicopter at the stern of the ship and her almost unthinkable combination of Second World War era 406mm guns, Tomahawk cruise missiles and Phalanx CIWS. Around half a year after this footage was taken, HMS Gloucester shot down an Iraqi Silkworm missile, leaving it to fall into the water just 640m away from the Wisconsin's sister