Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to upgrade the Sampson radars on the Type 45 destroyers to provide those destroyers with ballistic missile detection and tracking capability.
There has been some initial investment to investigate the potential for anti-ship Ballistic Missile Defence enhancements to the Type 45 destroyers. These investigations include the Sampson Multi-Function Radar. No decisions have yet been made.