Impressive ship and missile combination.

People are talking about cost, but if I'm not mistaken it was Aster 15 used. Which I think is being replaced by CAMM (sea ceptor) in mk 41 vls, freeing up space for more Aster 30. As a result, this provides an excellent training opportunity for a real world fire scenario, which, considering the rarity over the past 30years of air defence missile usage and the increasingly unstable world, is probably well worth it.

Always proud and admirer of the British defence forces

The Aster missile family were and are developed by MBDA. Originally it was developed by the French Aerospatiale Missiles, who also developed the Exocet, the ASMP and the AS30L, among others. To this day, it’s the only 100% European ATBM capable missile.

Great system

Still a potent threat to an enemy!

I have a similar feature on my car to protect against attack from the rain, it's called the vindscreen viper.😃

They ought to develop a better defence against drones, maybe a hunter-killer drone armed with a small minigun or a shotgun. Drones tend to fly slow and won't detect something sneaking up on them so it should be possible to get close and shoot it down, as long as it's fast enough to intercept them. An enemy with hundreds of cheap drones could exhaust the supply of missiles on the ship.

I like how they made the booster by simply shoving a bigger rocket up its arse.

The challenge of enemy aerial drones - what would Crocodile Dundee do ?

Would have been nice if they had told us who makes all this kit?

Reminds me of getting G.I.Joe vehicles when I was a kid and reading the description of what they were capable of.

Is it like the Tamir from Iron Dome?

Drones cost is 500 dollars. That's a million dollar missile being wasted on it

French made missiles by Aérospatiale, then became mbda France plus collaboration with Italia.

Problem is the ships only carry 20?....30? of these missiles With no RAS So...lets say you're in the South Atlantic...again You're good for a day or two of operations And then you're going to begin to sweat

what drone did it intercept? Slow moving propeller driven?

One ship makes it very vulnerable.

60G turns. jesus.

A lot of people whining about the missile cost versus drone cost. Let me break it down for you a multi million dollar ship is destroyed or damaged requiring drydocking for repairs or goods having to be rerouted around Africa burning more fuel all increases the costs which will be inevitability passed onto us the consumer. This is not a great thing consudering we currently have inflation and a cost of living issue in the west. So yes missiles are the solution, also missiles and their warheads have an expiry date on them due to the chemicals used, if not used they have to be paid for to be refitted or disposed of...let that sink in before you whine about the cost of a few dozen missiles.

🇬🇧 Royal Navy best in the world

Get Sea ceptor fitted and replace Aster 15 giving 4x the missile load for short range air defence, I have no idea what the standard load out of the 48 missile tubes is but say it's 50/50, 72x Sea Ceptor and 24x Aster 30 giving a total of 96 missiles seems a lot better then 24x Aster 15's and 30's giving only 48 total, 12x Aster 30's would leave room for 108 Sea Ceptor so 120 in total, just requires government will to stop leaving our quality weapons systems lacking

Who makes this impressive weapon?

Drone = $5,000, Missle = $200,000...... we all know how this is going to end

My taxes paid for it. So proud of the value for money 😂

Wonder how this would compare with Barak-8 missile?

Sweet Jesus. But can it play crisis?

The Aster 30 missile costs about $2 million each. At a cost like that these convoys need to start paying an escort fee.

Does anyone know how many of these missiles are produced in a year maximum numbers and how many the Brit Navy has in stock? I was wondering how long the navy could sustain combat

And this is why the British royal navy IS the best in the world! Bits it not something we should make our enemies aware of is it? Or is it?

Useless against torpedoes 🦈

What’s the difference between SM 6? Same effect

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Merry Christmas Peeps, and well done at tracking a cricket ball, 2024 will be a great year for English Cricket, expensive but GREAT 😁😂😂😂

French Aster Pif paf coupled with Thales kaBand sensors , deadly ;)

Awesome but those ... flaps 0:26 look a bit like a work in progress?

Seems crazy that they have to use 1million pound middle to take out a 10k or even less drone

Anytime a British ship aircraft is the story there's always someone in the comments who are pathetic and put everyone everything down?!

This is not really a missile to use against a drone. What would they do against a drone swarm ? Phalanx is also not really for use against a drone.

It’s a great destroyer. But there’s only 6 of them. Not nearly enough. One may be able to track a thousand targets at once but so what? Air defense ships can be easily overwhelmed by missile salvos.

Cue all the armchair admirals

Los primeros "que temen a la apertura económica" so los que rstán subvencionados por el estado, manteniénfose en una burbuja de ineficiencia y brevendismo lamentable.

who cares?

👎👎👎👎👎 Kilometer, NOT Ki-LO-meter! If you can't say kilometer properly, just use miles; you're using it right now, anyway!

Drones are best destroyed with a missile like the small Blowpipe the army uses, that would be more cost effective than Sea Viper.

What they forgot to say is how much a rocket costs. It’s s 1.5 mil. Shooting down a 20k drone or missile

Could have used the Phalanx cheaper but they wanted to test it out lol

The Sampson cannot detect stealth. Whether that be a missile or stealth fighter. And this video is also confusing Sampson working in tandem with Artisan.

We are still trying to fight colonial wars for the benefit of a small wealthy elite. The servicemen at the end of WW2 realised this and put a stop to it and we were eventually forced out of what had been our colonies that we had plundered to enrich our wealthy elite. We are doing the same now, when will the people of this country learn the lesson again and put an end to this global conquest and plunder

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A million dollar missile on a billion dollar ship took out a drone made of plywood and powered by a lawn mower engine. Congrats.

A £1.5m missile to take out a £5k drone,,,,

£1 Million to launch, to kill a £500 drone, your doing it wrong.

Wrong weapon system for £10 drones you need cheap weapon systems to be capable of attacking a100 plus drones at once same with Houthi small boats one boat one kill weapon like a supersonic cannon ball kinetic snergy rounds.

Bit off a waste use the main gun that was 1 drone how many missiles on board oops

These ships are an exercise in how not to design a propulsion system.

Why are you giveb all of this information away to our enemies who will make a weapon to knock out thus one

The fact it’s been 32 years since the RN had to engage an airborne target tells you everything you need to know about the RN and its roll in the defending our nation. They’re basically civvies in uniform.

I hear also that piece of junk destroyer is also suffering from periodic electrical systems failure and that’s the ship the UK 🇬🇧 sends to the Red Sea.. What a clown Navy..