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Britain will supply Typhoon jets, autonomous mine-countermeasure drones, drone boats and HMS Dragon to a multinational, defensive mission to safeguard shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, backed by £115m for mine-hunting and counter-drone systems, with deployment conditions to be determined and more than 40 nations involved.
A British Royal Navy destroyer, HMS Dragon, will join a multinational freedom-of-navigation patrol in the Strait of Hormuz to help restore open commercial shipping through the strategic waterway, which Iran had effectively closed during conflict and where the US blockade remains in place; France and the UK promoted the move as multilateral cooperation, with Macron citing confidence-building for shipowners and insurers, while Trump has urged allies to share the burden of protecting energy routes.
Britain's destroyer HMS Dragon has sailed from Portsmouth toward the Mediterranean after Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the deployment in response to a drone strike on Cyprus's RAF Akrotiri base, noting the Royal Navy currently has no major warship stationed in the region.