The close-range battery combined independently radar-directed STAAG twin Bofors mountings with a manually directed 40 mm mounting that remained useful if the more complex system failed. Two pentad launchers carried ten 21-inch Mark 9 torpedoes, enough to threaten even a much larger surface combatant. Squid gave the class one of the strongest anti-submarine weapons available in its period. The six 4.5-inch guns added a heavy rapid-fire surface and anti-aircraft battery. The passage states both a rate of 16 rounds per minute per gun and a 48-round combined figure, so its arithmetic does not support a precise total for all six guns.
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A layered anti-air, anti-surface, and ASW armament
Radar-guided Bofors, ten 21-inch torpedoes, Squid mortar, and rapid-firing main guns made the Daring class unusually flexible across threat types.