Many of the front pages carry photographs of HMS Dragon as it left Portsmouth for the Mediterranean, where it will protect UK military bases. “Heading out, at last” says the Daily Telegraph, a reference to the fact that the government announced the deployment of the warship a week ago. The Financial Times reports that the Ministry of Defence said the Royal Navy had carried out the equivalent of six weeks’ work in just six days to ready the destroyer, which included resupplying its air-defence missiles. “Enter the dragon,” declares the Sun.
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