GIBRALTAR TENSIONS: Royal Navy fires warning flare at Spanish ship in British waters

Gibraltar has been at the heart of a territory dispute between the UK and Spain for years

 

A ROYAL Navy patrol boat has fired three flares at a research vessel from Spain amid increasing tensions over the Rock.

Spanish oceanographers onboard research vessel Angeles Alvariño anchored in British waters as they attempted to drop a sonar buoy.

A Gibraltar Squadron speedboat was scrambled to stop them after radio contact failed.

Royal Navy ship the HMS Sabre then fired three warning flares, eventually forcing the research ship to leave.

Britain at ‘SIGNIFICANT risk from Putin’s new undetectable torpedo-firing submarines’

President Vladimir Putin is set to recommission the virtually undetectable Piranha vessels as part of a £230million military spending spree.

Piranhas, which can lay mines and fire torpedoes, were developed but axed during the Cold War.

A source said: “Putin is breathing life into many old programmes and thinks subs are an effective way of getting what he wants militarily.

Russian Sub “Caught” By UK Fisherman After Moscow Threatens To Nuke Denmark

As US allies rapidly demonstrate their willingness to abandon Washington on key issues like China’s attempt to move the world away from US-dominated multinational institutions that have held sway for decades, and with NATO simultaneously building a “line of troops” along the Russian border, Moscow seems keen on proving yet again that Russia’s belligerence knob “goes to 11.” As we noted over the weekend, Moscow took the rhetoric up a notch recently when the Kremlin threatened (literally) to blow Danish ships out the water with nuclear missiles, prompting a NATO spokeswoman to dryly note that “such statements do not inspire confidence or contribute to predictability, peace or stability.” Here’s more from Reuters: