HMS Executor is the lead ship of the Royal Navy’s Type 86 destroyers. Its layered strike and defence loadout includes 144 Mk 41 VLS cells and 16 large Mk56 VLS cells for air, cruise and anti-ship missiles, 1x 155mm AGS cannon, plus 4 Sting Ray torpedoes for ASW. Short range defense and small boat suppression come from 4 Mk35 30mm mounts, while four DASS countermeasure suites provide automated decoys and soft kill protection. Integrated sensors including a wide aperture AESA radar, advanced EW and ESM suite and hull sonar fuse targeting and threat warning into the ship’s combat system, making the Type 86 a multi-domain air, surface and subsurface defender and strike platform.