HMS Diamond shoots down drone while escorting merchant ships in the Red Sea

Diamond transited the Suez Canal on 14 December, deployed in response to increasing attacks on merchant ships. Having only just arrived in theatre, the MoD announced today that she destroyed a drone using her Sea Viper/PAAMS system.
This is the first use of an Aster missile (named Sea Viper by the RN) in combat by the Royal Navy, although the French frigate FS Languedoc also fired an Aster 15 missile at a similar target earlier this week. It is also the first time the RN has destroyed an aerial target in combat since the first Gulf War of 1991. See also: www.navylookout.com/royal-nav...
This video uses library footage of HMS Diamond and an Aster missile test.
#type45destroyer
Music: Berlin at Night by Dan Henig

[@alessandrocarpi9898]

Bravo to the Royal Navy.

[@srijanme]

crap navy bahahaha

[@darrensmith6999]

Nice one Diamond! i have a little model of her above my desk (:

[@zipz8423]

Wondering if she has any Aster 1NT in the VLS.

[@AndrewGrey22]

Nice to see some nations are doing something about it.

[@grahampritchard5284]

Royal Navy.... always engage the enemy more closely 😎🇬🇧

[@halimtalafuka9946]

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[@LondonSteveLee]

The fitment of Sea Ceptor to our Type 45s has been put back years in order to supply the Polish Ukraine border with Sky Sabre - which are 80% the same systems. So we are resorting to using hideously expensive ASTER 15 missiles to shoot down $10,000 drones! The rather expensive penny-pinching continues!

[@JohnDoe-rk9kc]

Royal Navy 😍

[@flips300021]

"Come on, Thunder Child! Thunderrrrr Chiiiiild!!!" Guess the album..

[@ryderscott1710]

Not even HMS Diamond in the video. 🙄

[@alanlane3670]

HMS Dragon ???

[@vinceking7878]

So this was a real attack at a real enemy drone? An armed combat drone or spy one?

[@robharris8844U]

The Houti are sending drones at Commercial shipping 🚢

[@leoschmain9730]

Armed.

[@zipz8423]

Yes but nobody is saying which model type.

[@firstwavepuresoul]

@@zipz8423 It says in the write-up a sea viper missile...try to keep up

[@zipz8423]

@@firstwavepuresoul Are you drunk? Everybody else is talking about the drone.

[@MBO_Bama]

Send the porcupine

[@garygavin857]

Yemen , backed by Syria. There will be no shortage of Drones to squeeze that supply route. West needs a stratergy.

[@d04me]

Yep , as per the Israel objective - Dead Men Walking

[@flips300021]

We have tons! They have pea shooters

[@facehugger3]

Peeing off the UK and the Royal navy wasn't maybe the best idea.

[@franceswatts4001]

The US navy shot down 14 more in the same area.

[@Aeronaut1975]

Unusual, they're usually late to the party.

[@biddyboy1570]

​@Aeronaut1975 😂

[@josephlezano7691]

🙌👍

[@d04me]

Red Cross appeal before this Video - F&*k &that .

[@brianshipman5313]

BZ troops.

[@user-oz3sz6vx5v]

Can we afford to fire at anything.

[@warrensuddick5737]

Getting phased out for Camm, so might as well use them and I may be wrong, but doesn't the Treasury pick up the cost of operational use?

[@user-oz3sz6vx5v]

@@warrensuddick5737 Regardless what happens it's the tax payer that has to pay.

[@Blaidd7542]

Unless you want to be paying £4.50 a litre at the petrol station because it's being delivered via the cape of good hope we kinda need the shipping lanes open as well

[@admiralmallard7500]

​@warrensuddick5737 Actually Aster 15 is being upgraded to Aster 30. Will give us a good stock of the Latter

[@phil20_20]

🐝 Bee's you got bugs? Can you afford to be a slave? How soon we forget the Barbary Coast...

[@kelvinwoodward8021]

A bit overkill

[@EDProductionsYT]

No really when you see the havoc these drones are causing to shipping

[@drandrewallan]

That looks like 4 missile launches ! How many Sea Vipers does it take to shoot down 1 drone?

[@ieuanjones7615]

are you acoustic? it's different shots of the same launch

[@davidhouseman4328]

You mean the bit labelled library footage?

[@lordtherapeutics]

Excellent stuff chaps!

[@TheDangoNinja]

Posts the same missile launch footage from different perspectives. 4 MISSILES?! FOR ONE DRONE?! THE WASTE OF MONEY.

[@omegacrow4597]

On the Instagram it’s says it’s footage from a sea viper exercise from 2021

[@sps6]

Waste of public mony

[@aleccap5946]

With the rising cost of living, with 3 billion pound of taxpayers money gone to the Ukraine can we actually afford this conflict without tax going through the roof as an excuse by our inept government to pay for this ? We also have hundreds of thousands of unidentified illegal migrants to the tune of 8.4 million pound a day. We're not a rich country but an over taxed one

[@halimtalafuka9946]

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