Royal Navy Tracks Surfaced Russian Sub Through the Channel

The Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Mersey recently tracked the movements of a surfaced Russian attack submarine as it transited past the United Kingdom. The offshore patrol vessel was tasked to accompany the Kilo-class diesel attack submarine RFS Rostov Na Donu as it made a surfaced passage through the North Sea and the English Channel, headed south from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. Rostov Na Donu is attached to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and Mersey’s crew tracked and reported on her movements so that NATO allies could track her further progress. “No patrol is ever the same as the last and we have…