Italian destroyer ITS Caio Duilio deployed in the Red Sea as part of EU Operation Aspides, this afternoon shot down a Houthi attack drone at a range of about 6 km. Unclear if Aster missile or Oto Melara 76 mm gun kill.

On this day in 1971 Britain’s first nuclear powered submarine, HMS Dreadnought, becomes the first Royal Navy nuclear submarine to reach the North Pole. Dreadnought remains in Rosyth awaiting disposal.