Royal Navy ship HMS Richmond shooting down Houthi drones last night in the Red Sea – the first combat use of Sea Ceptor (CAMM) missiles.

10 comments

1. Well it’s looks like they work 🇬🇧

2. Do they have vls aft of the bridge too? I was waiting for the 1 in front of the bridge to go off, and I thought those were flares or something else firing off.

3. There’s a brief view of the 32 cell ‘mushroom farm’ VLS cannisters in there. Very nice!

4. What’s the unit cost on these?

5. I love how casual all the chatter sounds.

6. Was that 5 launches for the target? From other articles I understand they shot down 2 drones but 5 launches to do such is going to result in a very quick rundown of supply – I would hate to imagine the situation were the frigate in a a high intensity conflict zone with long continuous duration of attacks.

7. Screenshot of the complete screen momentary visible at 0:14.

   Feels like this wasn’t intended to be shown.

   [https://imgur.com/a/zQY1S4t](https://imgur.com/a/zQY1S4t)

8. It’s nice to see the world’s most prestigious navy in action.

9. I’m glad the Brits are getting some practice, the hollowing out of the nation from 14 years of inept and corrupt rule has taken it’s toll. Evident in the latest missile test failure (with the fucking Defense Minister on board), following on a previous failure before that, the problems with HMS QE and then HMS PofW dropping out of NATO exercises ane after the other, and on.. You want to keep your powder dry these days, guys…

10. Excellent job HMS Richmond!