The £1bn Royal Navy destroyer that’s sat idle for 3,000 days

It was built as an integrated, closed system, with a lack of modularity, so it was a complicated exercise to remove things from the hull and amend them,” says Dr Sidharth Kaushal, a naval expert at the Royal United Services Institute. “Daring was also the first Type 45 to be launched – it is therefore the oldest and most problem-ridden.”