{"id":143110,"date":"2025-05-30T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143110\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T03:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:50:11","slug":"russian-warship-lurking-near-outer-hebrides-spying-on-britains-missile-defences-caught-by-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143110\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian warship lurking near Outer Hebrides spying on Britain\u2019s missile defences caught by Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A RUSSIAN warship was caught by the Navy spying on Britain\u2019s missile defences.<\/p>\n

It was found lurking near the Outer Hebrides during Nato<\/a> live fire tests on shooting down a Russian-style missile.<\/p>\n

\"Royal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Russian spy ship Yuri Ivanov is tracked by the NavyCredit: Royal Navy\"Royal<\/a><\/p>\n

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HMS Hurworth shadowing warship Stoikiy in the ChannelCredit: Royal Navy\"Merlin<\/a><\/p>\n

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HMS Hurworth and a helicopter during the alertCredit: Royal Navy<\/p>\n

The Yuri Ivanov, a so-called Russian research ship, was trying to watch the exercise, known as Formidable Shield.<\/p>\n

The drills involved HMS Dragon, one of the Navy\u2019s most powerful warships<\/a>, firing a \u00a31million Sea Viper missile at a target designed to simulate Moscow\u2019s formidable hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n

The Navy<\/a> hailed the test a \u201chuge moment\u201d as the Sea Viper obliterated the incoming missile.<\/p>\n

Moments after the war games finished, HMS Dragon was ordered to hunt down Vladimir Putin\u2019s<\/a> spy ship.<\/p>\n

READ MORE ON RUSSIAN SPIES<\/p>\n

The Navy<\/a> said: \u201cHMS Dragon launched her Merlin helicopter to collect information until the Yuri Ivanov headed north towards its Arctic home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Separately two Navy<\/a> minehunters, HMS Ledbury and HMS Hurworth, were scrambled in the Channel<\/a> to shadow Russian corvette Stoikiy.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Commander James Bradshaw, captain of HMS Hurworth, said: \u201cThis was all in a day\u2019s work for the ship\u2019s company.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Vladimir<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Navy ordered one of its vessels to hunt down Vladimir Putin\u2019s spy shipCredit: AlamyIncredible moment a Royal Navy warship destroys a supersonic missile off Scots coast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A RUSSIAN warship was caught by the Navy spying on Britain\u2019s missile defences. It was found lurking near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,2299,4884,2301,1144,8041,8593,332,712,820,118,16,657,753,15,61824,333,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-143110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-global-politics","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-moscow","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-nuclear-weapons","17":"tag-royal-navy","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-section-newsuk-news","21":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-ukraine-war","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-us-navy","27":"tag-vladimir-putin","28":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114594752040552598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}