Dramatic footage shows the moment Russian warplanes buzz a British aircraft carrier in a “threatening” manoeuvre.

Vladimir Putin’s jets can be seen flying towards HMS Queen Elizabeth, whose crew scramble its own F35 stealth fighters to confront them.

The extraordinary video shows the crew warning the Russians to back off as the massive Royal Navy warship sails through the Mediterranean on its first deployment.

The incident happened in 2021 but has now been revealed in a new BBC documentary The Warship: Tour of Duty that starts on Sunday the 22nd January.

The £3.2 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth and its sister ship HMS Prince of Wales are the UK’s biggest ever warships.

It was was near the Suez Canal on its way to the Far East on a sevenmonth tour when the Russian planes appeared.

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