Watch: This is the moment the Royal Navy and RAF 'unleashed fire and fury' on a ship, obliterating it with a range of missiles and bombs before it sank to the ocean floor
The Royal Navy has demonstrated its "high-end weapons" in a "formidable display of firepower" as it destroyed a former US Navy warship in a rare exercise.The frigate HMS Westminster, a Wildcat helicopter and three RAF Typhoon jets "unleashed fire and fury" at the decommissioned USS Boone, the service said.
Exercise Atlantic Thunder allowed sailors to practise striking a realistic target far out to sea and test the accuracy of British and American forces. Commander Ed Moss-Ward, of HMS Westminster, said: "Atlantic Thunder has demonstrated that UK and US naval and air forces can work together to deliver an end-to-end kill chain against a maritime target at long range.
"The integration of high-end weapons, sensors and communications with our NATO allies is key to the collective war fighting capability of the Alliance demonstrated by the sinking exercise.
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