He must deploy Merlin underground helicopters due to suspicion of Russian submarines following the HMS Queen Elizabeth combat team in the Mediterranean.

Two helicopters Merlin MK 2 was ordered to take off the emergency from HMS Queen Elizabeth and the Fort Victoria Fleet Logistics ship on June 27 due to the question of a Russian submarine that was present near the British battleship.

Merlin MK 2 helicopter drops a hydro-buoy in a rehearsal.

The anonymous source in the Navy British said a helicopter has released a hydro-buoy to seek the Russian submarine traces, but it doesn't know if it comes to the results.

The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on this information.

Experts believe that the Merlin tried to search for a 636 Varshavyanka project submarine, also known as the Kilo class, belonging to the Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet and was stationed at the Tartus port in Syria.

The Queen Elizabeth Carrier Battle team left him to depart to Asia on May 22.

In this first sugary, the British carrier was escorted by a destroyer, a fleet, a submarine and two of his support vessels, and the US destroyer USS The Sullivans and the Dutch fleet