[3] Anti-aircraft armament consisted of two sextuple Sea Wolf surface-to-air missile launchers, one forward of the bridge, and one on the roof of the helicopter hangar.

[4][3] Battleaxe was at Gibraltar on 24 March 1982, as part of Exercise "Springtrain 82",[5][6] but when the Falklands War broke out in April that year, she, unlike sister ships Broadsword and Brilliant, did not deploy to the South Atlantic as she was suffering from problems with her propeller shafts.

[5] On 2 July 1988, Battleaxe rescued the stricken sailors from the yacht Dalriada, which had sunk after colliding with the submarine Conqueror's periscope.

[12] Rademaker was involved in an unfortunate incident on 29 November 2004, during the annual FRATERNO naval exercise with ships of the Argentinian Navy.

While conducting gunnery practice against target drones, a malfunction of the Argentinian frigate ARA Sarandí's automatic weapons system caused her to fire on Rademaker; four Brazilian crewmen were injured together with an Argentine naval observer.