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Wouldn't it have been quite a sight if the Russian carrier returned when HMS Queen Elizabeth enters service, at which point we can see a size comparison of both ships alongside?
National Post
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National Post
U.K. Royal Navy escorts Russian military ships in ‘routine’ operation in English Channel
ONDON — A Royal Navy warship has met and tracked a group of Russian military ships entering the English Channel in an operation that the Ministry of Defence repeatedly stressed was a routine matter.
Britain’s HMS Dragon, a Type 45 destroyer, monitored the movement of the seven-strong Russian group Thursday led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. The navy says that once the ships spotted each other they “sailed close by as a standard ‘meet and greet.’”
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