The crew of the Portsmouth-based submarine hunter adopted the ‘Patrol Quiet State’: every department had to focus on reducing noise to avoid giving Kent’s location away to the enemy below.Įngineers carefully managed engine states, auxiliary systems, and radar signatures to ensure the ‘ship’s signature’ was as small as possible enabling Kent to approach stealthily. In company with American and Italian destroyers USS Roosevelt and ITS Andrea Doria and Polish frigate ORP Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko for much of the time, Royal Navy frigate HMS Kent focused much of her time hunting the live submarines participating in Joint Warrior. Involving more than 20 ships, submarines and supporting vessels from Britain and nine NATO allies, plus over 30 aircraft and drones, Royal Marines and US Marines, the workout ranged from Cape Wrath and the Hebrides to the North Sea and finally the waters off the South Coast. Joint Warrior finished yesterday having tested 3,000 sailors, soldiers and aviators against the latest threats and technology: submarines, swarm attacks, drones, air raids, missile strikes and more. A ten-day workout for Allied military forces on land, at sea and in the air climaxed with a four-day naval ‘battle’ in the Channel as the UK’s largest exercise of the autumn ended.
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