ladimir Putin’s Russia recently tested the UK’s defenses in a massive 30-day Atlantic submarine hunt. In this episode of Warships And Warriors, we dive into the deployment of a 500-person UK task force—including HMS St Albans, Merlin helicopters, and RAF P-8 Poseidons—as they tracked an Akula-class decoy and two highly specialized GUGI spy submarines mapping critical UK seabed infrastructure.
We explore the Royal Navy’s aggressive use of acoustic psychological warfare, dropping active sonobuoys to force the Russian subs out of the Exclusive Economic Zone. But was it actually a victory?
While the UK talked tough on submarine espionage, political resolve completely collapsed down south in the English Channel. Watch as we break down how Whitehall lawyers blocked the military from boarding Russia’s sanctioned “shadow fleet,” forcing an overstretched Royal Navy to send the lightly armed RFA Tideforce tanker to awkwardly tail a Russian missile frigate. Is the UK surface fleet stretched too thin to back up its own ultimatums?
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