Type 23-class frigate | The Duke of the Seas

We are investigating the Type 23-class surface combatant of the Royal Navy, a.k.a. the Duke class, one of the best warships created by British naval engineers. #type23 #frigate #royalnavy

Due to copyright issues, we re-uploaded the updated version of our Type 23 class video.

Why did the U.K. require a new frigate, even before the Type 22-class ships were commissioned?
What innovative features were introduced with the Type 23-class vessels?
Why do the Duke-class frigates lack a barrelled close-in weapon system?
What are the significant operational achievements of the Type 23 class?

00:00 Introduction
01:10 Programme history
03:14 Design
06:06 General characteristics
07:55 Radar (Type 997 Artisan / Type 996 Mod 1)
07:27 Armament (RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile / NSM anti-ship missile / Sea Ceptor air defence missile / 114mm Mk 8 naval gun / 30mm DS30M Mark 2 gun - 30mm DS30B gun / 324mm twin torpedo tubes - Sting Ray torpedo)
09:42 Operational history

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[richardsawyer]

Excellent point about British politicians sacrificing our ships even when tensions escalate. Hearts of Oak is an added polish to the video too😊

[yelcho]

Type 23 of Chilean navy upgrade:
Radar : HENSOLDT TRS-4D
CMS : Lockheed Martin Canadá CMS 330
Misil: MBDA Seaceptor (CAMM)

[Aren-]

The 23s have got to be some of the best looking modern warships I've seen. Will be sad to see them go.

[IanM-iedb]

I served for 3 years on HMS Iron Duke..the poor ships and crew never got any rest and recuperation as we were always away on Deployment or exercise mostly submarine hunting/ASW operations.

[Supertobias]

Great video! The Type 23 is one of my favourite ships.

[NickAV]

The Chilean Type 23s replaced the Type 996 Radar with the Hensoldt TRS-4D between 2020 and 2021 as seen in the video

[StephenDaniel-pl]

Your videos are truly deep and information heavy. I've been around for awhile. I'm always looking forward to seeing what's next. Please keep the videos coming!

[juanpablo]

Great video, I love the Type 23. But you made a mistake here; Chilean frigates do NOT have the original radar set, these were replaced by Hendsolt TRS-4D radars, new IFF systems, sea ceptor, new modernized command and control room from Lockheed Canada (CMS 330), and at least one, maybe two, have received new towed-array sonars. By far the most capable frigates in South America.

[Crissy_the_wonder]

Great video, nicely edited. At 5.30 you said it was the first western ship with VLS. Didn't the USS Bunker Hill, the first US ship with VLS enter service before the first Type 23?

[morganstraussg]

chilean t23s have the hensolt trs4d radar, equivalent to the new artisan. with 600 kms and 1000 targets
also the 2018 upgrade in the chilean frigates include the cms330 from lockheed martin, sea ceptors missiles, captas 4 2087 sonar, etc
this are, without question, the best surface wessels in latin american countries (with the also chileans adelaide class)

the names of the chilean t23s are 1 for a british commander that serve in chile : lord thomas cochrane. and 2 british decendants chilean commanders: patricio Lynch and Carlos Condell

[FinsburyPhil]

Very capable ships that evolved into excellent platforms. However, they were handicapped just as all RN classes were and still are - not enough of each are built.

[afalcone]

The way you pronounced the names of the 3 Chilean frigates is quite funny, considering all of them are named after people with English or Irish surnames
By the way, Chilean ships don't have the "CS" prefix. I don't know who invented that prefix, but they sure have an imagination.

[tddrwdw]

HMS Monmouth visited my town of Bar Montenegro back in 2017. Beautiful ship. The crew dabbed at us as they were leaving port 😂.

[barrycrosby]

A number of these ships were built at swan hunters and the final ship ever launched at the wallsend shipyard was hms Richmond, built on time and to budget with the smallest number of defects ever in a royal navy ship yet this didn't stop the political closure of one of the world's finest shipyards, RIP SWAN HUNTERS

[horusfalcon]

Interesting report. I'm surprised they are not continuing to make more of them with iterative improvements. Is there a replacement for the Type 23 in the pipe?

[moodogco]

I always thought the hulls on the type 23 were composite materials & wasn't steal etc

[squirepraggerstope]

In view of our Whitehall+Westminster vermin's usual bad faith and incompetence. With even fewer of these aging but still very capable ships than was originally intended being fully updated and kept. The five most recent and capable ASW (and still effective in the GPF role) platforms, St Albans, Portland, Kent, Sutherland and Somerset, should accordingly now be enabled to remain in service until max2042 and not be retired on a one-for-one basis as their T26 successors join the fleet. While simultaneously, another five further enhanced T31 variants are design-finalised and ordered to replace them.

[aaronstreeval]

The royal navy needs to get to a point where in short order they can put HMS prince of wales or queen Elizabeth to sea (if they aren’t already on patrol at sea)
With a minimum of 24 f35s that are navy jets not apart of the RAF

Sailing alongside A type 45 destroyer and a type 26 on the other and a supply ship bringing up the rear

[Sam-usng]

Make a video on the new Nilgiri class frigates of the Indian Navy