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# Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer Manual: An insight into operating and maintaining the Royal Navy's largest and most powerful air defence destroyer ... Manual) (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manuals)

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The Type 45 Daring class is the largest and most powerful air defence destroyer class ever operated by the Royal Navy and the largest general purpose surface warship (excluding aircraft carriers and amphibious ships) to join the fleet since the Second World War cruisers. Author Jonathan Gates describes the development, trials and entry into Royal Navy service of the Type 45, the anatomy of the vessel, its propulsion system, radar command and control systems, weapons systems, and how the ship is operated at sea. Officially licensed Royal Navy product. The first modern warship to receive the Haynes Manual treatment. Author Jonathan Gates has been given unique access to the Type 45 Daring class by the Royal Navy. Author was on the design team for the Type 45. Fully illustrated with detailed photographs and technical drawings. Type 45 is the first British warship to be designed entirely using CAD.

Review: this is an excellent description of the ship and its systems - This must have been a dificult book to put together because of course this is a warship class newly come into service of which so much is classified. Having said that, this is an excellent description of the ship and its systems, speaking from the point of view of someone who works on a system on board these vessels, I thoroughly recommend it, in fact I have recommended it to the rest of the team I work with! There are only two issues I have problems with, one is that the cutaway drawings are coloured which to my point of view makes them less clear than if they were left as line drawings. The other is that the large drawings go across two pages so detail is lost in the gutter. They would have been better on fold-out pages, but that is not just true of this book, it is general to all the otherwise excellent Haynes technical manuals.
Review: This is probably the best book yet in a great series - This is probably the best book yet in a great series.A lot more comprehensive than i'd ever thought possible with some amazing detail.Lets hope we get something just as good for the Type 26 Frigate and the Queen Elizabeth carriers.No doubt a copy has been sold in China.

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- Haynes Publishing UK

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | 648,727 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,417 in Ship References 70,710 in History (Books) 135,758 in Society, Politics & Philosophy |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 105 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ this is an excellent description of the ship and its systems
*by E***P on 10 October 2014*

This must have been a dificult book to put together because of course this is a warship class newly come into service of which so much is classified. Having said that, this is an excellent description of the ship and its systems, speaking from the point of view of someone who works on a system on board these vessels, I thoroughly recommend it, in fact I have recommended it to the rest of the team I work with! There are only two issues I have problems with, one is that the cutaway drawings are coloured which to my point of view makes them less clear than if they were left as line drawings. The other is that the large drawings go across two pages so detail is lost in the gutter. They would have been better on fold-out pages, but that is not just true of this book, it is general to all the otherwise excellent Haynes technical manuals.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is probably the best book yet in a great series
*by B***N on 21 November 2014*

This is probably the best book yet in a great series.A lot more comprehensive than i'd ever thought possible with some amazing detail.Lets hope we get something just as good for the Type 26 Frigate and the Queen Elizabeth carriers.No doubt a copy has been sold in China.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just a PR exercise by the MoD and BAe Systems?
*by C***S on 26 September 2016*

If ever there was a book that had the potential to restore one’s shattered faith in the ability of a dysfunctional Ministry of Defence and a private monopoly defence industry to deliver what the Royal Navy needs, then this would have been it. Of course, it’s not the fault of the book that fewer vessels were constructed than originally planned. Nor the fault of the book that no more can be built because BAe Systems owns the rights to the hull design (despite it having been paid for by the taxpayer and adds insult to the injury of vast sums of public money being invested in private dockyard infrastructure to enable the ships to be built in the first place). Nor is it the fault of the book that HMS Dauntless, after just three years in commission, has now been reduced to a harbour training vessel due to problems with its propulsion machinery which are unlikely to be rectified before 2020. Problems that have afflicted the rest of the class in varying degrees. Although very interesting and informative from a technical point of view, one is led with the nagging impression that this is a thinly disguised PR exercise on the part of the builders. And the fact that the author was employed by BAE Systems to work on the weapons integration aspects of this ship does little to assuage that impression. The presentation is visually rich, with many explanatory diagrams. However, there are details in these graphics which make life difficult for the reader – for example, the numbers on a diagram relating to the key are rendered as though they’re in water bubbles (see pages 61-63) which is just plain irritating and unnecessary. Further difficulty in reading graphics is made by the unnecessary graduated backgrounds which distort the foreground colours and make black text difficult to read against a dark colour (see pages 64 and 69). CAD drawings have been used as basis of technical illustrations, with cast shadow areas masking detail, and the same old mistake of them being drawn on screen and then printed in ink on paper, so that reflected rather than transmitted light renders darks too dark. Being derived from CAD drawings, some of these illustrations are impossibly complex to interpret (see front cover and pages 66 and 91). Now, this may sound old fashioned, but it’s not – nautical distances are never, ever measured in kilometres as used in this book – they are measured in nautical miles. A nautical mile represents one minute of arc measured along the meridian in the latitude of that position and for all intents and purposes can be regarded as 2000 yards. Hence speed in knots being measured as the number of nautical mile travelled per hour. Nobody afloat uses kilometres for distance, only metres for depth. So nautical miles or yards are always used to describe a ship’s range or radius of action, or the distance its weapons can fire. Overall, and despite the perhaps harsh criticisms above, this is a fascinating book giving a deep technical insight difficult to find elsewhere into the features of an advanced modern warship design.

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