The UK Royal Navy will receive HMS Diamond, the third Type 45 anti-air warfare destroyer built by BAE Systems, on 22 September.

The £1bn ($1.5bn) vessel will undergo final trials before being commissioned next year, according to the Daily Record.

The Type 45 destroyers can perform a wide range of operations that include anti-piracy and anti-smuggling activities, disaster-relief work, surveillance operations and high-intensity war fighting.

The vessel can also engage in a number of targets simultaneously, and can defend aircraft carriers and ships from powerful future threats from the air.

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The vessels will contribute specialist air warfare capability to joint operations until 2040.

BAE is under a contract to deliver six Type 45 destroyers to the navy by the end of 2013.