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London repels Putin plans: Did Russia want to spy on British high-tech rocket launchers?

2022-11-23T09:56:33.966Z


London repels Putin plans: Did Russia want to spy on British high-tech rocket launchers? Created: 11/23/2022, 10:38 am By: Momir Takac The Russian research ship "Admiral Vladimirskiy" sails at sea. © IMAGO / Peter Seyfferth The appearance of a Russian research vessel off the east coast of Britain alerted the Royal Navy. Was it spying on high-tech rocket launchers? LONDON - Russia has apparent


London repels Putin plans: Did Russia want to spy on British high-tech rocket launchers?

Created: 11/23/2022, 10:38 am

By: Momir Takac

The Russian research ship "Admiral Vladimirskiy" sails at sea.

© IMAGO / Peter Seyfferth

The appearance of a Russian research vessel off the east coast of Britain alerted the Royal Navy.

Was it spying on high-tech rocket launchers?

LONDON - Russia has apparently tried to spy on the latest British military technology in the North Sea.

This is reported by the British tabloid

Daily Express

.

The Russian research ship “Admiral Vladimirskiy”, which patrolled the east coast of Scotland for six days, is under suspicion.

According to the blog

The Auxiliary Shipping Forecast

, which reports on the activities of Russian ships, the "Admiral Vladimirskiy" left the Skagerrak on November 9, heading west.

It is not known what her mission was, but she was off the north-east coast of Scotland for three days.

She did not enter British territorial waters, but she was within surveillance range of the Lossiemouth military base.

Russian research vessel also conducts covert underwater reconnaissance

As the blog goes on to write, a supply cable for the Orkney Archipelago, the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands runs in the Moray Firth Bay.

The Royal Navy suspected that the Admiral Vladimirskiy, which is also used for covert underwater reconnaissance activities, was scouting critical underwater infrastructure on behalf of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, writes the

Daily Express

.

Russia's strategy in the Ukraine war, where critical infrastructure is being targeted, shows that this does not seem far-fetched.

However, the British Navy is certain that the Russian ship had an even more important mission: namely to spy on Royal Navy ships.

After three days, the research vessel left the bay and headed south, stopping 30 nautical miles east of Montrose.

Was Russia trying to spy on a new high-tech Royal Navy missile launcher?

The ship "Madfox" can carry guided missiles and can be remotely controlled.

© IMAGO / PA Images

The striking thing: At the same time, the British research ship “HMS Enterprise” was conducting tests on various autonomous ships and boats in the area, including underwater vehicles and the Royal Navy’s new autonomous rocket launcher.

The rather small ship “Madfox” at around 12.5 meters can carry guided missiles and can be remotely controlled by two sailors.

The port of Sevastopol in Crimea is said to have been attacked with remote-controlled drones at the end of October.

After two days, the "Admiral Vladimirskiy", which is subordinate to the Russian foreign secret service GRU and thus also to Putin, left

the area again.

The

Daily Express

, citing British naval sources, writes that "the Russian mission has been curtailed due to countermeasures".

Specifically, the dispatch of the ships "HMS Queen Elizabeth" and "HMS Northumberland" was mentioned.

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mt

)

Source: merkur

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