Lugzy wrote:Bit of a mystery tbh , it seems forces Tv are reporting today that HMS Dauntless was taking part in the exercise but according to the Royal Navy hms Dauntless is still along side in Portsmouth , plus there's a nice video covering the ships involved in the bmd exercise on the link below , it only shows 7 ships instead of the 8 reportedly taking part no type 45 to be seen , and your right gab / shark it's a Italian navy horizon class in the picture ,
http://forces.tv/22099952
She's most definitely not in Portsmouth. On the 19, she was photographed right outside Lamlash, and before that she was seen around Faslane. She was up in Scotland for JW and ASD, for sure, unless at least two ship spotters up north have posted photos of her with wrong dates... the question is whether she had trouble that kept her out of at least the second exercise. She is not mentioned in any news release nor seen in the images.
The ships seen in the video are (in no particular order):
USS Ross
USS The Sullivan
Andrea Doria (Italy)
De Zeven Provincen (Netherlands)
Almirante Juan de Borbón (Spain)
Fridtjof Nansen (Norway)
Halifax (Canada)