Enter The Dragon

HMS Dragon is the fourth ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in November 2008 and commissioned on 20 April 2012
Name: Dragon
Ordered: December 2000
Builder: BVT Surface Fleet
Yard number: 1064[1]
Laid down: 19 December 2005
Launched: 17 November 2008
Sponsored by: Mrs. Susie Boissier
Commissioned: 20 April 2012
Identification:

• Deck code: DR
• Pennant number: D35
• International callsign: GMIA
• IMO number: 4907866

Motto: "We yield but to St George"
Status: In active service, as of 2017
Class and type: Type 45 Guided missile destroyer
Displacement: 8,000[4] to 8,500 t (8,400 long tons; 9,400 short tons)
Length: 152.4 m (500 ft 0 in)
Beam: 21.2 m (69 ft 7 in)
Draught: 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Installed power:

• 2 × Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines, 21.5 MW (28,800 shp) each
• 2 × Wärtsilä 12V200 diesel generators, 2 MW (2,700 shp) each

Propulsion:

• 2 shafts integrated electric propulsion with
• 2 × Converteam electric motors, 20 MW (27,000 shp) each

Speed: In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: In excess of 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement: 191[10] (accommodation for up to 235)
Sensors and
processing systems:

• SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar (Type 1045)
• S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar (Type 1046)
• Raytheon Integrated Bridge and Navigation System
• 2 × Raytheon AHRS INS
  (MINS 2)
• 2 × Raytheon I-band Radar
  (Type 1047)
• 1 × Raytheon E/F-band Radar
  (Type 1048)
• Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)
• Ultra Electronics SML Technologies radar tracking system
• Ultra Electronics/EDO MFS-7000 sonar

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)
• AN/SSQ-130 Ship Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F cryptologic exploitation system
• Seagnat
• Naval Decoy IDS300
• Surface Ship Torpedo Defence

Armament:

• Anti-air missiles:
• • Sea Viper air defence system, with a 48-cell Sylver A50 VLS, for mix of up to 48:
  • Aster 15 missiles (range 1.7–30 km)
  • Aster 30 missiles (range 3–120 km)
• Anti-ship missiles:
• • 2 × quad Harpoon launchers
• Guns:
• • 1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun
  • 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × Miniguns
  • 6 × General purpose machine guns

Aircraft carried:

• 1–2 × Lynx Wildcat, armed with:
• • 4 × anti ship missiles, or
  • 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
• or
• 1 × Westland Merlin, armed with:
• • 4 × anti-submarine torpedoes

Aviation facilities:

• Large flight deck
• Enclosed hangar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dragon_(D35)