The UK Carrier Strike Group tracked a Russian Navy intelligence vessel during Exercise Dynamic Mongoose in the Norwegian Sea, the UK Defence Journal understands.
Posted to the official @COMUKCSG account on 21 May, imagery also shows a Type 45 destroyer operating in close proximity to the Russian vessel Yuri Ivanov.
The post described the activity as a joint effort between the Carrier Strike Group and Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), stating “CSG + @COM_SNMG1 = NATO coordination into action.”
NATO’s Maritime Command confirmed on 21 May that the Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida and a Royal Navy Merlin Mk2 helicopter from HMS Prince of Wales were among the assets shadowing the Yury Ivanov as it lingered near NATO forces.
The Yuri Ivanov is an intelligence ship designed to collect signals intelligence and monitor allied naval activity. Its presence came as Russia separately concluded a three-day nuclear weapons exercise involving ballistic and cruise missile launches in the Barents Sea.
Dynamic Mongoose 2026 is taking place in the Norwegian Sea along the Norwegian coastline, with maritime patrol aircraft from Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States participating, supported by surface vessels from Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. The exercise is designed to train NATO naval forces in anti-submarine warfare, with allied submarines manoeuvring beneath the Norwegian Sea while surface and air forces are tasked with detecting, tracking and countering underwater threats.
US Navy Rear Admiral Bret Grabbe, commander of Submarines NATO, said the exercise “demonstrates NATO’s ability to operate together in one of the world’s most strategically important maritime regions, reinforcing our commitment to the security of the High North and the North Atlantic.”
HMS Prince of Wales is currently deployed as the lead vessel of the UK Carrier Strike Group, operating alongside SNMG1 during the exercise.
OHHH NOOO…..Shock horror.
Russian Spy ship shadows group exercise, whatever next.
The purpose of reporting is to document events, it doesn’t have to be shocking to be worthy of publication.
The purpose of my post was to highlight the shock that those who do not know, would probably feel having read the article headline.
It’s so often that these headlines (When used by the Red Tops) cause shock to the un informed. It’s just like the Rivet Joint Articles you run on here George, “We” all know it happens but the masses have no clue until the “Shocking headlines” appear In their News sources.
It’s my particular mindset, not personal.
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Hi George, thanks for posting, the image in particular is very telling with HMS Prince of Wales surrounded by escorting warships. The main stream media had her completely on her own.
😂😂 Jesus Jim, did you bring George an 🍎 in this morning as well? 🤮🤮
(I’m saying nothing)
“Stay low, move fast”
😂
Keep reporting George.
Love read these articles, George, no matter how mundane. Really filling in my mornings.
Cheers
Love your name tag here…just picturing it😆 🤣
You are such a wag, not.
🤦♂️
What’s my dog ever done to you.
Gosh!
Do the Russians still make use of AGIs?
What’s AGI in this context? Artificial General Intelligence makes no sense for your question.
Auxiliary General Intelligence. Basically a non-commissioned sensor platform. Okean and Okean-M are the two most famous types.
Thank you. Not one I’d come across.
No worries 👍
Sorry, Jon, been offline a few days.
As Leh says. In the Cold War soviet trawlers, literally like small fishing boats, would shadow NATO ships, bristling with antenna.
It will at least give the TG some practice in EW security if nothing else. We do it to them and they do it to us. Forever it shall be.
Shocking…. I never knew … Not. 🤦♂️
according to Navy Lookout the airwing consists of 2 Merlins and 2 Wildcats
And not a single “wing” between them.
Dynamic Mongoose was a sub detection exercise. We sent MPA’s, F35s not needed
Read It again ?
“Wing” as in the 2 Merlins and 2 Wildcats don’t have Wings. It’s an “Air Wing” without “Wings”.
Get It Now ?
Oh and Mongoose’s don’t have wings either.
Mongeese, surely?
Yes, you are most probably correct.
I shall hang my head In utter shame and Thrash my self all over with Nettles.
Good to see you back though, It’s been a War on here without you 🤣
Correlation is not causation, I tend to avoid the place when it gets scrappy.
Also, there’s practically no news of interest.
Me too. Just had a blast around the Poole/Bournemouth/Sandbanks/Studland area on my Busa. 150 miles at warp nine mostly !
It sure beats staying In and posting on multiple sites all day that’s for sure. ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️.
I hope you weren’t [too] loud around Sandbanks, they might not like it in their giant houses.
Did you go across the chain ferry? There’s another one in Cowes, have you visited the IoW?
Ha, not too loud, It’s all traffic jams and 30 mph signs so no chance of giving it big handfuls of Throttle. Yes across the ferry and up the hill to Corfe Castle, big circle back to the ferry and then some Brain out Hooning back to my tempory base.
Yes, went to IOW in the “Van” a few months back.
The Southern part of my Bucket List has pretty much all been ticked off now.
Sorry to be pedantic (again) but it’s mongooses.
The ‘goose to geese’ type plural rule applies only to words of Germanic origin. Because mongoose has roots in Indian languages, it takes the standard English “-es” rule.
Apology accepted. 😁
Didn’t know that, I’ll bear it in mind next time I have a conversation about mongeese 🙂
Jest not.
Tomorrow, you might meet someone recently back from India who talks of the mongeese they saw. Imagine how superior you will feel when you correct them.
I love a good Mongoose Curry.
Technically, a helicopter is a specific type of rotor-wing aircraft. Other types include Autogyro and Gyrodyne.
Excellent, I’ll sleep so well later knowing that.
Considering the black sea fleet has been wiped out by a nation without a navy, I don’t think we have any realistic threat from their northern fleet.
I thought they would learn lessons, and improve their defensive aids but it’s been a few years now and still their black sea fleet is in hiding. I suspect not wanting to admit what went wrong means they can’t learn from it.
Or even admit that something did go wrong.
The Black Sea fleet exists in a very different state to the Northern Fleet. The Northern Fleet, together with its Pacific counterpart, are heavily weighted towards Bluewater submarine operations, the opposite environment to the enclosed inshore operations opposed by the Ukrainians in the Black Sea.
In short, submarines are not something the Ukrainians have proven capable of hunting at sea. So, we shouldn’t assume that the same methods should work.
At sea no, but Ukraine has taken out a couple of subs at port. Just shocking how bad russian defensive capability is
Aye, though it’s a little harder for the UK to replicate given the distance involved.
But yeah, Russian defensive port infrastructure (despite being the best in Europe) is abysmal.
Range wouldn’t be as much as a major issue. Since if a war happened, there would be eastern bloc countries also involved that would be way closer.
It would also be interesting to know how quiet their subs are these days. If they are maintained anything like as bad as their land force gear then I suspect not very. Not that we will ever find out.
I do wonder given Herne’s 5000km range whether we couldn’t do X-sub type attacks on the Russian northern ports. The loss of a UUV would be nothing compared with taking out a cruiser or one of their few modern frigates.
At 4 Knots ?
And they may need to avoid strategically placed fishing nets.
Wow, look at all those escorts 😂
Yes, I’m having trouble counting them all. 😎😎😎
Is It One RN escort or are all the others out of shot along with all the aircraft ?
I count three NATO escorts escorting NATO’s flagship on a NATO exercise 😀
I think she has 7 in total with her
Four warships, and three submarines, IIRC. I had a fun time trying to work out whether it was a Portuguese or Dutch variant of the Karel Doorman-class frigate with the group (turned out to be Portuguese).
Yes I see the two other NATO ships together with the One RN ship. Splendid sight, nice to have friends.
Too bad we don’t have something suitable (very fast and highly manouverable) to cross the bows of the Yuri Ivanov with 6 metres to spare, several times. Meh, as Michael said it’s all part of the regular naval game and forever it shall be.
What about a SpearFish, that’s fast and manoeuvrable, and on the wire (hell even on automatic) it can come back time and time again.
Carrier strike group…give me a break. This was a tiny number of British ships that they managed to drag out of the dock long enough to make a brief show of contributing to a NATO exercise. We are completely incapable of generating and sustaining a credible, independent carrier strike group.
Well the Americans struggled to maintain one in the Gulf when their laundry blew up leaving them with no naval stealth fighters… which is why they asked us to supply one and why Trump changed from orange to purple when we wouldn’t/couldn’t. That said the French seem to be hitting 80% operational availability wonder what ours is, not sure I want to know tbh.
It’s a good pic. Such a shame UK doesn’t have more of these fine ships.
Haha….Spot the Multiple account poster ! 🤦♂️
So obvious 😁😁😁
Which one?
Could be you ? 😎
Who knows who Is who on here ? 🤔
I just go with Gut Instinct 👍