Clarke relays a report of a defence meeting in which the Royal Navy's contribution to protecting the United Kingdom was questioned. In the reported exchange, Type 45 destroyers are identified as the available ballistic-missile-defence assets, while the RAF is said to lack surface-to-air missiles. Responsibility for ground-based missiles is also linked to disagreement between the Army and RAF. The account is secondhand, and the individual and original report are not identified.
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Type 45 missile defence and service responsibilities
A secondhand account of a defence meeting raises the distinction between naval missile defence and the RAF's stated lack of surface-to-air missiles.