“Deeply Dangerous”: UK Prepares Military Action After Russian Ship Targets RAF With Lasers | APT - video Dailymotion

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The UK has warned Russia after British defence minister John Healey confirmed that the Russian spy ship Yantar directed lasers at RAF pilots monitoring the vessel near Scotland. Healey called the action “deeply dangerous” and said the UK has “military options ready” if the ship’s behaviour escalates. The Navy has updated its rules of engagement to track Yantar more closely as tensions between London and Moscow rise.  #UKRussia #Yantar #RAF

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00:00good morning good morning and thank you for being here power strong allies and

00:11assured diplomacy and as the threat grows as i speak a russian spy ship the yantar

00:19is on the edge of uk waters north of scotland having entered the uk's wider waters over the

00:25last few weeks this is a vessel designed for gathering intelligence and mapping our undersea

00:33cables we deployed a royal navy frigate and raf p8 planes to monitor and track this vessel's every

00:42move during which the yantar directed lasers at our pilots that russian action is deeply dangerous

00:51and this is the second time this year that this ship the yantar has deployed to uk waters

00:59so my message to russia and to putin is this we see you we know what you're doing

01:07and if the yantar travels south this week we are ready is already boosting british industry

01:14british jobs british communities i have changed the navy's rules of engagement so that we can

01:22follow more closely monitor more closely the activities of the yantar when it's in our wider

01:32waters we have military options ready should the yantar should the yantar change course

01:42to fix our health service to strengthen our defense we're delivering the change

01:49the concern security prosperity we build it here in britain but we must also innovate

01:57because technology is changing the nature of warfare now faster than at any time in human history

02:04so alongside the heavy metal of planes ships munitions we will accelerate the power of drones

02:12of ai of autonomy so that we give our british armed forces the advantage on the battlefield

02:18so that's why later today i'll be in plymouth opening a new helsing factory where they make sea

02:25and undersea drones thank you all thank you very much and to those of you who

02:55this is uh that we're about to use honestly we can undersea drones as well as it was

03:00going to be kept right in the the last half of us hey we got over a million days

03:03and we'll be here at so we're going to end this week something that we have done

03:05and we're going to be doing oh yeah it's a lot of work we're going to be doing

03:07and we've been busy well but i the people are paying over mid-weights

03:11and we're going to be doing well well we've been doing that for a long time and we're doing

03:16the same kind of concern with that we're going to find out where we're going to do

03:19right we'll be the same cool group what we're going to do

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