A Royal Navy submarine surfaced just yards from a Russian spy ship in a dramatic show of force to protect British waters. The nuclear-powered HMS Astute emerged from the depths after the Kremlin ...

In the background is the Royal Navy's tanker RFA Tidesurge which shadowed the submarine for days as it ... RFA units such as Tidesurge – both for training and routine constabulary operations ...

A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine was used to warn off one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spy ships operating around UK waters. The hunter-killer submarine was ordered to surface ...

A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was forced to surface next to ... 23 Frigates – and RFA units such as Tidesurge – both for training and routine constabulary operations around the British ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.