A British naval supply ship with an on-board helicopter was deployed to track the stealthy Kilo-class submarine Krasnodar, the Royal Navy said.

I went looking for the Russian Navy’s biggest vulnerability and found a problem its admirals never planned for: the world can now watch its struggles in real time, dissect its failures, and challenge decades of myth about its power.

For three straight days, the British Navy closely followed a Russian submarine as it moved through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes — the English Channel. The operation began when the Russian submarine,

A RUSSIAN submarine was shadowed through the English Channel by the Royal Navy in the midst of a raging storm. Dramatic pictures show one of Vladimir Putin’s stealthy subs – known to

The Royal Navy says it has tracked a Russian submarine through the English Channel to "safeguard" UK waters. A tanker shadowed the Russian Kilo-class submarine Krasnodar as it sailed on the surface from the North Sea, through the Strait of Dover and into the English Channel, it said.

This is not the first time the Royal Navy and NATO have had to scramble ships and aircraft to track Russian vessels passing through the English Channel on their way to the Atlantic Ocean.

In the past two years there has been a 30 per cent surge in Russian ships approaching British waters - sparking a strong response from officials keen to face down Vladimir Putin

He argues the UK has "neglected" its post-World War Two responsibility to be the guardian of the western Atlantic, and now the Royal Navy is "trying to find a way to look credible" in addressing a threat that has been "steadily increasing for the past 20 years... but still ignored by the government and Navy".

The U.K. plans to transform the Royal Navy’s submarine-hunting capabilities with a hybrid naval force meant to counter Russian undersea threats in the North Atlantic. The program, dubbed Atlantic Bastion,