A FRIGATE from the Belgian navy was the latest arrival on the Clyde on Friday afternoon.

The Louise-Marie was captured on camera off Greenock as ships from several NATO countries assemble off the coast of the west of Scotland ahead of Operation Strike Warrior.

It comes after the Norwegian navy's largest ship, the replenishment oiler HNoMS Maud, berthed at the Greenock Ocean Terminal cruise pontoon on Friday morning.

The Louise-Marie was launched in 1989 and served in the Royal Netherlands Navy until being sold to the neighbouring country's fleet in 2005.

It visited London in 2013 as part of the preparations for the centenary of the start of the First World War, bringing soil from 70 WW1 battlefields to the UK for a memorial garden at the city's Wellington Barracks.

Earlier this year it was sent to the Red Sea to take part in the EU-led Operation Aspides to protect naval shipping in response to a rise in Houthi attacks on commercial vessels near the coast of Yemen.

Operation Strike Warrior will take place from October 14-27 and will see a series of training exercises and events in the north of Scotland and the North Sea involving warships, submarines and aircraft.

The exercise is held at this time of year annually and sees military assets of all shapes and sizes using the region as a base, with previous exercises seeing vessels dock at HMNB Clyde, Hunterston and Greenock.

Aircraft are also set to use Prestwick Airport as a base and staging area for the duration of the exercise.