The future Type 83 destroyer programme remains under review, with the Ministry of Defence confirming that progress toward a formal business case is now dependent on both the Hybrid Navy Strategy and the forthcoming Defence Investment Plan. Previous parliamentary answers describe Type 83 as forming part of the wider Future Air Dominance System, or FADS, a programme intended to replace the Type 45 destroyers in the long term. That system-of-systems approach also includes uncrewed surface combatants such as the Type 91 “missile ship,” alongside the advanced, minimally or optionally crewed Type 83 itself. Decisions on Type 83 will be shaped by wider questions around crewed and uncrewed balance, affordability, and long-term force structure rather than a straightforward replacement of Type 45. Until that plan is published, the future scale, pace and configuration of the Type 83 programme remains unresolved.