Carrier Strike Group 2021 - CSG21

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HMS Defender's Wildcat helicopter conducts a fly past of HMS Kent with her 'Martlet missile' wings attached whilst in the Indo-Pacific region as part of HMS Queen Elizabeth's Carrier Strike Group.

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HMS KENT

Arrived in Sasebo today for her mid-deployment maintenance period.

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HMS KENT

Arrived in Sasebo today for her mid-deployment maintenance period.

ROYAL NAVY

HMS Kent has raised the UN flag ahead of entering Sasebo Port under the 1954 UN Forces-Japan Status of Forces Agreement.
The frigate had previously joined the UK Carrier Strike Group with the USS America-led United States Expeditionary Strike Group 7 and two ships from Japan’s Maritime Self Defence Force to complete intensive exercises in the Pacific Ocean.

See - https://www.facebook.com/royalnavy/vide ... 5449460679

And - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... rike-group

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Three Aircraft Carriers. Dozens Of Stealth Fighters. A Powerful Allied Battle Group Has Gathered Near China.


Three aircraft carriers embarking two different models of F-35 stealth fighter have assembled in the waters around Okinawa.

The three-carrier group, with two American flattops and one British one, is among the most powerful naval formations to appear anywhere in many years.

And it’s not hard to understand the timing and location. The Chinese navy in recent weeks has been rehearsing an invasion of Taiwan. The three carriers are a warning—that an attack on the island democracy could have profound consequences.

The three flattops converged from separate directions. HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s new conventionally-fueled carrier, along with her British, American and Dutch escorts for several weeks now has been crisscrossing the Western Pacific.

Continues at - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2 ... nYEPriT9rY


See also - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ ... ess-192453

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USMC MV-22 Osprey lands aboard HMSQNLZ during touch-and-go drills in the Philippine Sea, August 21, 2021.

[Not the first time an Osprey has landed and discharged 'cargo' on Q.E. In UK waters in the past. Quite capable of delivering a spare F35B engine.]

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HMS Richmond arrives in Guam.

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Astute still alongside in Busan, South Korea

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Q.E. - UH-60 Blackhawks on deck! Helicopter Flying in from Busan Naval Base, great to work with ROK Navy.

Also series of Tweeted photos - https://twitter.com/smrmoorhouse/status ... 77/photo/1

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Film night on QEC

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UK Carrier Strike Group flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth to arrive in Japan

See - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-c ... Xnw7EpvNhU