The Royal Navy warship HMS Dauntless uses live rounds to take out an incoming drone from a distance, during an exercise used to prepare for a major deployment to Asia in the coming weeks. Armed Forces minister Luke Pollard says, “we will defend ourselves, and will defend our allies”.
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00:00Well, we have a formidable Royal Navy with incredible capabilities,
00:03and testing the crew and this platform today in a simulated training environment
00:09that matches precisely some of the threats that they could meet on the high seas
00:13shows that we will defend ourselves and will defend our allies.
00:16That's why we train hard so we can fight easy.
00:19If anyone were to threaten our carrier,
00:21they should be in no doubt that we possess formidable capabilities to defend ourselves,
00:25to defend every ship in that task force.
00:28And what we've seen today is a crew on top of their game
00:31being able to test not only themselves but the platform as well
00:35to make sure they can defend themselves and any other ship standing alongside.