Fleet News (15/01/14)

• The new year of DDS shipbuilding has been opened by a whole new type. S121 Warrior is the first of the new Warrior 16A bomber class. The ship has now begun extensive new type trials and will enter full service in the Spring. It is hoped it will be able to take part in exercises before that as part of its testing.
• One class leaving the DDS is the Arafura Sea 43C Medium Combat Ship class, the last 2 examples have now been converted and upgraded to Mediterranean Sea 43G standard, they are M178 Sea Of The Hebrides and M179 North Sea.