HMS St Albans: UK frigate shadows "Russian" warship in North Sea

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A British frigate shadowed a Russian warship through the North Sea near UK waters on Christmas Day, the Royal Navy has revealed.

HMS St Albans monitored the Admiral Gorshkov's "activity in areas of national interest", it said."
Navy tracks Russia warship in North Sea
 
The US did this literally every day of every year for decades. It was called 'Barnstorming'.

Soviet missile subs were detected leaving the Arctic Ocean through the Iceland / UK gap by underwater listening known as SOSUS.

A US Navy submarine would pick up the trail of the of the Soviet sub and stay in its sonar blind spot directly behind (baffles) and follow it all over the ocean for weeks until it returned to port.

I'm not sure they're still doing it as there is a greatly reduced threat from Russian missile submarines. But it was pretty standard routine until the '90s.
 

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