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The Curious Case of the HMS Defender
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On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, news began circulating of warning shots being fired at a Royal Navy warship. The claim was that Russia had fired the warning as the warship neared the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian defense agency went on to claim that a warplane dropped four bombs in the path of the HMS Defender. At first, it seemed as though the UK may have sailed too close to one of Russia’s largest naval bases. The UK Ministry of Defense denied any claims that warning shots had even been fired. Soon, analysts began piecing together a weird series of events that pointed more toward AIS spoofing and mis/disinformation.