RFA Proteus entering Portsmouth on Oct. 9. Picture by George Emmett.
The UK Royal Navy (RN) is preparing to commission and operate the future RFA Proteus, the first of two planned Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships (MROSSs), against a backdrop of increasing concern about the growing seabed warfare risk and increasing high-level naval focus on building critical underwater infrastructure warfare (CUIW) capability, Naval New reports.