R.N. answer to Exocet tested
NZPA-AP London Britain announced that its new anti-ship Sea .Eagle missile crippled the biggest Royan Navy warship to be destroyed since World War H in the first live trial of the weapon, which rivals the French-made ,'Exocet. The computer-guided Sea Eagle was fired for the first time with a live warhead, crippling in one strike the 5500-ton destroyer H.M.S. Devonshire at an undisclosed location in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, said a Defence Ministry spokesman. The Devonshire, which
cost £l4 million (about $NZ37.5 million) to build in 1962, was hit amidships by the missile fired from a Sea Harrier helicopter from the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Illustrious. The submarine H.M.S. Splendid then moved in on the crippled Devonshire, which was taken out of service six years ago, and torpedoed the hulk, said the Ministry spokesman. The 8.8. C. reported that the trial “confirms claims that the destructive power of the Sea Eagle overshadows even the French-made Exocet.”
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