Carrier Strike Group 2021 - CSG21

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CSG21's WILDCATS

As the Royal Navy's Carrier Strike Group deployment continues, we caught up with our Wildcat Delivery Team Leonardo UK to find out how they are supporting the operation.
See - https://twitter.com/i/status/1437750683873251331
Read more in the latest edition of Desider: https://des.mod.uk/desider-mag

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MEANWHILE ON GUAM

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 0269138944
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EverybodyLo ... htag_click

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Steak and football! - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1438293360645742593

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DIAMOND EN-ROUTE TO CATCHING UP WITH CSG21- https://twitter.com/hmsdiamond/status/1 ... 06/photo/1

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HMS Queen Elizabeth departs Yokosuka Japanese Navy Base near Tokyo in early September 2021 after a 3 day visit

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British warship enforces North Korea sanctions

British frigate HMS Richmond captured evidence of ships apparently breaching United Nations sanctions targeting North Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and ballistic missile programmes.

The Ministry of Defence say in a statement:
“HMS Richmond recently conducted operations in the East China Sea to support United Nations sanctions efforts targeted against the Democratic Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) Weapons of Mass Destruction and ballistic missile programmes. The sanctions, adopted in 2017, ban the supply of fuel or refined petroleum products to DPRK.

Detaching from the UK Carrier Strike Group, currently deployed to the Indo-Pacific, the Type 23 Royal Navy frigate captured evidence of ships apparently breaching UN sanctions and collected updated intelligence on other ships of interest, providing video and photographic evidence to the UN Enforcement Coordination Cell (ECC). The operations, which were conducted and completed earlier this month, are the first occasion since 2019 that a Royal Navy ship has supported United Nations sanctions monitoring and enforcement activity.”

Continues at - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british ... pYbEt1NsZw

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Goodbye Guam - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1442 ... 38/photo/1

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Richmond - https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202109270006

HMS Richmond, a Type 23 Frigate, has sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on enroute to Vietnam to demonstrate freedom of navigation, in a move likely to anger Beijing.

There are currently amid heightened tensions between China and Taiwan. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has stepped up military and political pressure to force the democratically ruled island to accept Chinese sovereignty.

While U.S. warships pass through the strait on an almost monthly basis, despite Chinese opposition, the Royal Navy has not done so since 2019.

Continues at - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british ... XGb-c4Gfyw

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RICHMOND - https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202109/ ... 6be32.html

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RICHMOND - https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202109/ ... 6be32.html

RICHMOND - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 021-09-27/
And - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 16/photo/1

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BAE Systems successfully completes planned overseas support of Carrier Strike Group

BAE Systems has successfully completed the management and delivery of planned overseas support for the UK’s Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21). The carrier group sailed from the UK in May and has been supported by BAE Systems throughout its deployment.

BAE Systems engineers and technicians have overseen the maintenance of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, Type 45 destroyers HMS Defender and HMS Diamond, and Type 23 frigates HMS Kent and HMS Richmond, in a number of countries along the route of CSG21.

As well as delivering maintenance support to the Royal Navy’s ships, BAE Systems also delivered specialised support to the ships’ combat systems and the fleet of F-35 aircraft on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Almost 100 engineers and technicians from BAE Systems and its partners have deployed across the world and on board the ships in order to deliver the support needed to keep CSG21 at sea.

Continues at - https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/articl ... TR5edK_QPo

See also - https://www.baesystems.com/en/what-we-d ... rike-group