Who Has Europe’s Best Destroyer? Type 45 vs Horizon vs F-100

Описание: Europe has plenty of navies, but very few truly modern air-defence destroyers. In this video I compare three top platforms of the current generation: Britain’s Type 45, the Franco-Italian Horizon/Orizzonte, and Spain’s Álvaro de Bazán (F-100). Sensors, missiles, propulsion, ASW, costs, and doctrine—who would you pick as your fleet’s air-defence anchor?

Chapters:

00:00 — Highlights
00:38 — Intro
02:05 — Displacement & Propulsion
04:35 — Detection Capabilities
06:23 — Air Defense
10:02 — Anti-Submarine Warfare
11:09 — Economics
13:06 — Geopolitics
14:45 — Conclusions

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SOURCES:

1) Royal Navy — “HMS Diamond shoots down a Houthi missile” (25 Apr 2024)
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/202...

2) Royal Navy — “Work starts on decade-long £405m revamp for Sea Viper” (22 Jan 2024)
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/202...

3) UK Parliament — Type 45: Repairs and Maintenance (PIP diesel generators; 30 Jun 2020)
https://www.parliament.uk/business/pu...

4) UK Parliament — Type 45 unit production cost (Answered 2 Dec 2016)
https://questions-statements.parliame...

5) UK Ministry of Defence — letter on Type 45 power/propulsion issues (PDF, 3 Mar 2016)
https://www.parliament.uk/documents/c...

6) Thales — “Maintenance and support of the S1850M radar (France/Italy/UK)” (press release, 18 Jan 2023)
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/news-c...

7) MBDA — SEA VIPER (product page)
https://www.mbda-systems.com/products...

8) OCCAR — FSAF-PAAMS programme page
https://www.occar.int/our-work/progra...

9) Eurosam — “Naval Systems / PAAMS” (overview)
https://eurosam.com/naval-systems/

10) Navantia — F-100 (Álvaro de Bazán class) product page
https://www.navantia.es/en/product/f100/

11) U.S. Navy (Navy.mil) — “AEGIS Weapon System” (20 Sept 2021)
https://www.navy.mil/DesktopModules/A...

12) NAVSEA — “Mark 99 Fire Control System…” (1 Dec 2025)
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/New...

13) Jane’s — OSINT: HMS Diamond shootdown (26 Apr 2024)
https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/...

14) Reuters — report sul shootdown (25 Apr 2024)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-...

15) USNI Proceedings — Type 45 “teething problems” electric drive (Mar 2017)
https://www.usni.org/magazines/procee...

16) RadarTutorial — AN/SPG-62 illuminator (spiegazione tecnica)
https://www.radartutorial.eu/19.karte...

17) EDR Magazine — Horizon MLU / PAAMS & LRR (30 Jun 2023)
https://www.edrmagazine.eu/horizon-ml...

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