The ships, equipped with artillery and machine guns, will patrol the English Channel and Irish Sea to combat illegal fishing, the MailOnline reported.
The Royal Navy’s Wildcat and Merlin helicopters are now on standby to join coastal surveillance operations as the UK significantly strengthens its contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit.
The UK has deployed military personnel to the Joint Maritime Security Centre to assist with any conflicts in the fishing grounds, and these warships may even be ordered to seize offending French fishing vessels.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned yesterday that there is now a “very, very real possibility” of a no-deal Brexit, which means the UK will have to trade with the EU in the future under what he called an “Australian-style relationship”.
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