By the Editor – Pursuit of a dream is never simple as the author explains, the RN has a concept that is as alive today as it was in the latter stages of the Second World War. In the early 1950s the RN developed a design concept called the ‘Cruiser-Destroyer’. Larger than a destroyer but smaller than a cruiser, its main function would be air defence but with significant anti-surface and anti-submarine capabilities. Sound familiar? It should do; it’s been an enduring idea, under a variety of names, since the Second World War. Today’s Type 45 is but the latest manifestation of what appears…
