The Russian planes have been intercepted and escorted by British F-35 jets from the service on July 2. The HMS Prince of Wales — certainly one of Britain’s two plane carriers — is the primary European plane service conducting NATO air protection operations with F-35 jets.
The transfer comes as Britain has for the primary time taken command of the alliance’s particular forces unit, described by the MoD as “the spearhead” of NATO’s speedy deployment groups and “capable of deploy anyplace on the earth inside days.”
Final week it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s £100 million superyacht is traversing the coast of Norway to return to Russia.
Talking to POLITICO, Protection Secretary Dan Jarvis refused to say whether or not the HMS Prince of Wales was monitoring the vessel, however stated: “We all know the place it’s.”
He added: “The truth that there’s the motion of the yacht, once more is one other fight indicator — to make use of an expression from my previous — that he [Putin] is more and more beneath strain.”
