First Japan-UK submarine warfare exercise held with China in its sights

Japan and Britain put each other’s navies through their paces recently with a first-of-its-kind joint submarine warfare exercise that analysts said was carried out with China in mind.The two-day drill, held in Japanese waters last month, is thought to have featured HMS Artful, a state-of-the-art nuclear-powered British submarine on its maiden operational deployment to the Asia-Pacific as part of a Royal Navy task force centred on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.Neither government has…