{"id":24934,"date":"2026-04-29T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/24934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:20:07","slug":"uk-eyes-anti-putin-naval-partnership-in-high-north-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/24934\/","title":{"rendered":"UK eyes anti-Putin naval partnership in High North \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is where our long-term focus must remain, where Russian service and subsurface activity continues to pose a systems challenge,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing an audience at the defense think tank RUSI, Jenkins stressed that the JEF alliance must &#8220;deepen and evolve&#8221; in order to &#8220;generate the collective combat power necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The navy chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/keir-starmer-government-middle-east-iran-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tried to address widespread criticism<\/a> that the force had been unprepared to deploy in response to the Iran war, saying: &#8220;I\u2019m here to show you that the Royal Navy is already rising to the challenge in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strains on Britain&#8217;s maritime resources were laid bare by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-steps-fill-gap-left-uk-navy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the debacle of HMS Dragon\u2019s deployment<\/a> to the Mediterranean to defend Cyprus, which took several weeks to reach its destination and left the U.K. with only one other destroyer\u00a0in service, which is committed to a separate Carrier Strike Group mission in the High North.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins said that he is focusing his efforts on rapidly equipping the navy with uncrewed systems to sit alongside crewed vessels \u2014 such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-divers-mines-strait-of-hormuz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">minehunting robots promised<\/a> for the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 in order to meet the threats identified last year by the Strategic Defence Review (SDR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is where our long-term focus must remain, where Russian service and subsurface activity continues to pose a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11190,313,1358,24,1367,42,593,3880,5,6,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-24934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-baltics","9":"tag-cyprus","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-maritime","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-services","15":"tag-tanks","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116488203294193573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}