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Britain and Norway volition equine associated naval patrols to support undersea cables from Russia, the U.K. said connected Thursday (December 4, 2025), arsenic Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre held talks connected defence.
The U.K. authorities says a combined fleet of astatine slightest 13 warships volition “hunt Russian submarines and support captious infrastructure successful the North Atlantic.”
It follows a 10 cardinal lb ($13.4 billion) woody struck successful August for Norway to bargain astatine slightest 5 British-made frigates. Those Norwegian vessels and 8 British ships volition run jointly successful the seas on NATO’s bluish flank.
As portion of the agreement, formally signed connected Thursday successful London by the 2 countries’ defence ministers, the U.K. has agreed to usage Norwegian missiles for the Royal Navy’s aboveground fleet.
Mr. Starmer and Mr. Støre were scheduled to clasp talks astatine the U.K. Prime Minister's residence astatine 10 Downing St. earlier visiting British and Norwegian unit astatine RAF Lossiemouth successful Scotland, wherever they volition conscionable craft crews that person been tracking Russian vessels. Britain says Russian naval enactment astir U.K. waters has accrued by 30% successful the past 2 years.
