Unidentified drone ‘follows’ UK’s £3bn flagship aircraft carrier – days after fleet of devices fly over three RAF bases

AN unidentified drone was seen "following" the UK's £3billion flagship craft bearer conscionable days aft unmanned devices flew implicit 3 RAF bases.

The Royal Navy HMS Queen Elizabeth seemed to beryllium tailed by an unidentified 1.5 by 1.5 metre drone astatine the entranceway to the larboard of Hamburg, Germany, connected Friday.

The German subject tried to people the drone with HP-47 jammers earlier it flew away, according to the German paper Bild. 

The 920ft craft carrier —­ the astir costly vessel built for the Royal Navy ­ — has been dogged by dodgy plumbing and a leaky propeller since archetypal going to oversea successful 2017.

It comes aft a swarm of unidentified drones were spotted flying implicit 3 abstracted RAF airbases, the US Air Force has said.

The fleet of "unmanned aerial devices" were seen implicit a £40m RAF airbase that is acceptable to location American nuclear weapons.

The incidents, which occurred betwixt November 20 and 22, saw “small unmanned aerial systems” spotted implicit RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall successful Suffolk and RAF Feltwell successful Norfolk.

The US Air Force, which has combatant jets connected standby astatine the bases, said it was unclear astatine this signifier whether the drones were considered hostile.

RAF Lakenheath is simply a captious subject installation that stores the US Air Forces successful Europe's lone 4th and fifth-generation combatant wing, too being location to F-35A & F-15E tactical jets, subject website The War Zone reports.

While US Air Forces successful Europe (USAFE) played down the incursion, it came amid a week of superior escalation of hostilities between Russia and the West over the ongoing warfare successful Ukraine. 

Kremlin person Vladimir Putin issued a caller menace against Western powers conscionable days ago.

The raging dictator warned helium could onslaught British and US military targets successful his biggest menace yet aft Ukraine fired Nato missiles into Russian territory.

For the archetypal time, Kyiv's forces deed targets wrong Russia utilizing US and British-supplied long-range missiles. 

In retaliation, Russia tested a caller mid-range hypersonic ballistic rocket successful a onslaught connected Dnipro, Ukraine. 

The onslaught marked the strongest rocket understood to person been utilized during the struggle truthful far. 

In a televised code connected Thursday, Putin said subject facilities wrong the UK and the US could go valid targets for the Russian forces arsenic a nonstop effect to Ukraine's usage of US-made ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles.

He said: "Russia considers itself entitled to usage weapons against subject facilities of countries that licence the usage of their weapons against Russia.

"Since this moment, arsenic we person underscored repeatedly, the struggle successful Ukraine, provoked by the West, has acquired elements of planetary nature."

After striking the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro with an experimental hypersonic rocket aboriginal connected Thursday, Putin ordered the wide accumulation of the "unstoppable" Oreshnik, believed to beryllium capable to scope Britain successful nether 20 minutes.

Earlier this year, bombshell documents from the Pentagon revealed the US is acceptable to store atomic weapons at RAF Lakenheath successful Suffolk.

The tell-it-all documents from the US Department of Defence’s procurement database revealed plans for a “nuclear mission” acceptable to instrumentality spot “imminently” astatine the RAF base.

They showed the Pentagon had ordered caller instrumentality for the base, including ballistic shields designed to support subject unit from "high-value assets" attacks.

RAF Lakenheath is expected to instrumentality successful B61-12 gravity bombs which person a adaptable output of up to 50 kilotons.

The atomic warheads volition beryllium up to 3 times the spot of the deadly Hiroshima weaponry astatine the aerial base, according to the procurement contracts.